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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Behind The Curtain with Todrick Hall
Watching Todrick Hall perform can frankly be exhausting. We hasten to add, in a good way that is. 35-year-old Hall has evidently never lacked ambition leapfrogging from a gig as a performer at a Disney Theme Park in Orlando to becoming a semi-finalist on TV’s American Idol, before turning into a highly successful You…
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Broken Heart Land : a story about a culture of prejudice and bigotry which led to hope
This week sees the online screening of Broken Heart Land a powerful documentary essentially about LGBTQ Rights but is also very much about a culture of prejudice, bigotry and sheer hatred that still prevails in so many parts of our country. It is a portrait of a town divided along the right/left fault-line that…
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Alexis Gregory directs DECLAN written/starring Alistair Hall
One of the remarkable plus points of this wretched Lockdown is the innovative ways that artists, queer or otherwise, have used to bring us such an array of culture into our homes. Better still on a global basis like we have never seen before and so essential with the world being so fractured right…
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The Queens who all want to be Miss Continental
It’s a bit of mystery why it took several years for filmmaker Mark Saxenmeyer to get his documentary The Queens finally released. It’s a powerful story of a fascinating slice of queer history although it so poorly edited that it so often fails to do justice to all the ‘girls’ sharing their remarkable stories,…
