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TOM GOSS : Body Postive Ode to Plus Size Men
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But we live in a world that is obsessed with one specific, narrow type of beauty. How would our perceptions of beauty change if we dared to idealize other types of beauty? This is queer singer/songwriter TOM GOSS ‘s ode to round men . He says…
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Here Awhile : the prodigal lesbian sibling goes home to die
Actor Tim True steps behind the camera for his directing debut for the drama Here Awhile which he also cowrote. It’s the story of a prodigal lesbian sibling, 30-something-year-old Anna (Anna Camp), who has finally come home just to die. Her cancer is well-advanced and inoperable so she has returned to the family home…
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Filmmaker Leon Lopez loves telling stories ….. queer ones that is
When we recently interviewed queer Brit actor/performer/writer/director Leon Lopez one of the things we discussed was his new web series DISTANCING. Shot entirely on IPhone in isolation during the Covid 19 Lockdown in London, this six part series that Lopez directed by remote its the story of two men in a relationship but physically…
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Andrew Hebden reviews Spectrum : a queer anthology of Manchester’s Canal Street
Social bubbles are all the rage this week with the announcement from the UK Prime Minister that lonely, single person households can now mingle with one other without risking a visit from the coronavirus popo. Spectrum, directed by Kieron Moore, Abigail Henry and Christopher Bowles is on a similar social theme. In the gay…
