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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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The Queen : the 1968 classic Drag film lovingly restored
This wonderful sllce of LGBTQ from 1968 perfectly captures the world on NY Drag when the height of their existence was simply winning a Beauty Pageant. Thankfully this debut documentary by filmmaker Frank Simon has been lovingly restored this year as part of the Stonewall 50 Celebrations. It is a piece of cinema verite…
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Jonny Ward’s ☆☆☆☆☆ review of the electrifying performance of non-binary transgender actor Jenet Le Lacheur as HAMLET
Hamlet ☆☆☆☆☆ Iris Theatre Director Daniel Winder does death wonderfully: whether it is Gertrude’s poisoning which is visceral and gruesome, or Polonius’s violent and prolonged demise at the sharp end of Hamlets dagger. Welcome to Hamlet – Game of Thrones style! Iris Theatre is a summertime institution. For the last ten years it has…
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Michael Childers : Hollywood Photographer, Producer and one half of an iconic gay couple
When Michael Childers was at the Provincetown Film Festival recently to present awards in the name of his late life partner the filmmaker John Schlesinger we seized this golden opportunity to film an interview with him. Not only did he share a wealth of stories about his own very successful career, and his…
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Stephen Coy reviews NIRVANA IS HERE by Aaron Hamburger
How does a reviewer write about a novel that centers on a particularly awful incident without ruining the reader’s discovery of how it affects the main character? Not an easy task but I will try to discuss the novel without revealing this central fact. Adult Ari Silverman is a tenured medieval studies professor at a…
