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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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St Lucia makes being gay LEGAL….. BUT there are 67 countries around the world where it is still illegal
Saint Lucia is a beautiful Eastern Caribbean island nation with a pair of dramatically tapered mountains, the Pitons, on its west coast. Its coast is home to volcanic beaches, reef-diving sites, luxury resorts, and fishing villages. Trails in the interior rainforest lead to waterfalls like the 15m-high Toraille, which pours over a cliff into a…
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First glimpse of SPIKE LEE’s latest movie ‘HIGHEST TO LOWEST that just premiered at Cannes Film Festival
Spike Lee is not the most prolific of filmmakers, his last one was Da 5 Bloods some five years ago, so any new release is highly anticipated and a welcome addition to our viewing choices this month. Lee’s very stylistic films have examined race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary…
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Isherwood’s classic queer novel ‘A SINGLE MAN’ is now adapted into dance theatre piece by Jonathan Watkins for The Royal Ballet
Tom Ford is a modern Renaissance man with a host of artistic endeavors under his belt. Some know him as the designer who turned Gucci around, but we think his debut as a filmmaker was much more significant. In 2009, he directed A Single Man based on the 1964 novel of the same name by…
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Mario Paglino and Gianni Grossi : the gay married couple who gave Barbie (and us) real glamour have sadly died
In a near-depressing world where the self-serving Orange Buffon in The White House has lost total touch with reality, we so desperately need to be able to escape to a different reality to feel good about the world and ourselves. Sadly, this week, in a fatal car crash, we lost one of the most talented…
