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A Luv Tale : about 4 queer women in Harlem
It’s been 20 years since director’ Sidra Smith’s debut film A Luv Tale played the Film Festival circuit and picked up a couple of Audience Awards. Now she is back with a 6 part web series of the same name that picks up where she left off with the story of the lives of…
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State of Pride : YouTube star Raymond Braun investigates
When queer Oscar winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedmann were commissioned by YouTube Originals to make a documentary to mark the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall they chose Raymond Braun a young LGBT YouTube star to front the project. Braun, once recognized on Forbes’ 30 under 30, was born 21 years after the Riots…
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Mates Leather Weekend in PTown kicks off the Fall in style
The summer may be over here in Provincetown but the ‘themed events’ still continue and are diverse as ever . Last weekend was the annual Tennessee Williams Theater Festival and this coming weekend is the 32nd Mates Leather Weekend. There is absolutely no connection between the two at all, although if America’s greatest queer writer…
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Dragtime : looking back in time
A great wee find on YouTube (so its free) is this thoroughly entertaining HBO documentary by then newbie director Patti Kaplan about some of our favorite Drag Queens. The year is 1997 and Jeff Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman is so young he is totally unrecognizable in men’s attire : Lady Bunny had more…
