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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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SAINT NARCISSE from queer auteur Bruce La Bruce
A new film from the Canadian queer auteur Bruce La Bruce is always an event. We are careful not to include him as part of the wave of new queer cinema that the leading Film scholar Ruby B Rich first recognized. LaBruce is one of the leaders of the queercore movement which is. noted…
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Three Time Academy Award Winning costume designer Anthony Powell dies.
The wonderful British costume designer Anthony Powell nominated for 5 Academy Awards and winning 3 of them. died in London aged 85. Powell enjoyed great success designing for both stage and screen (he won a Tony too). Although his raison d’etre was period costumes such as Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the…
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Help Save Central Station : a vital queer space in London
From the outside Central Station looks unprepossessing and somewhat shabby sitting at the end of a residential street in London’s Kings Cross area. But it’s what inside that counts, as for the past 30 years this independent Bar has been a safe space for members of London’s LGBT+ community and its varied artists and…
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Gay Life in the 1950s’ Cherry Grove on Fire Island
The New-York Historical Society is about to launch an exhibit of SAFE/HAVEN: GAY LIFE IN 1950s CHERRY GROVE. This OUTDOOR photographic Exhibit will give an intimate look at one of the first gay beach towns in the United States. It explores mid-20th-century gay life in Fire Island’s remote hamlet of Cherry Grove, located on…
