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Help Save Birdland : star-studded online cast party
President Clinton introduces this star-studded ‘cast’ of jazz vocalists and musicians and cabaret headliners (and some rising talent to) in this superb online ‘concert’. It’s all in aid of helping New York’s legendary Birdland Jazz Club that after some 70 +years is actually in danger of closing for good. It’s desperate in need of capital…
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Linda Simpson : THE DRAG EXPLOSION of the 1980s
If you still yearn for queer life in = New York City back in the 1980’s, when drag was so much more original, creative and really fun, then you’ll love this new book THE DRAG EXPLOSION by Linda Simpson The one time publisher of the revolutionary queer magazine, My Comrade , Simpson would go on…
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AILEY: the life of a troubled genius
Filmmaker Jamila Wignot’s new documentary of modern dance auteur, the tortured genius Alvin Ailey makes for such hypnotic viewing. With a combination of audio interviews with the man himself and some breathtaking archival footage of his early performances, she gives an intimate portrait of one of the greatest interpreters of the universality of the…
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The Most Beautiful Boy In The World …….all grown up
At the end of the 1960’s the openly gay famed Italian opera and movie director Luchino Visconti was finally ready to film his take on Thomas Mann’ s novella Death In Venice. The story is of an elderly composer who travels to Venice for health reasons where he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty…
