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“Closet Cases: Queers on What to Wear” reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
Sartorial innovation has become something of a trademark, even a cliché or stereotype, of the (in)famous ‘homosexual sensibility’ (think Queer Eye). In Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay, ‘Notes on Camp’, she writes: “A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about.” Better, perhaps, to show rather than tell,…
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Chemical Hearts : a rather pedestrian teenage romantic drama
Actor turned writer/director Richard Tanne’s sophomore film Chemical Hearts is a rather pedestrian teenage dramedy about unrequited love. Adapted from Krystal Sutherland’s novel of the same name its the story of 17 years old high school student Henry Page (Austin Abrams) who is a cross between a bookish nerd and a homeless romantic. He is…
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PLATONIC : looking for love in all the wrong places
Erin C.Buckley‘s sparking new queer web series PLATONIC is about the trials of searching for love and when you are a thirty-year-old something-single in Brooklyn Olive (Summer Spiro) is a lesbian and Billy (Ryan King) is straight and her best friend and their brief (and always off-kilter) romances fit neatly into each 5 min…
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PS Burn This Letter Please : a glimpse into NY’s gay drag scene in the 1950’s + 1960’s
In 2007 John Maloof a young graduate working on a history project bought a suitcase full of photographic negatives in a Chicago auction hoping that one or two them maybe useful in his research. However what he discovered that day was a treasure trove of what is undoubtedly one on the finest collection of street…
