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DRAG: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business
We read somewhere that Frank DeCaro’s glorious new book which is one of the most comprehensive guides to Drag was meant for children to know its history. Sorry kids its way too good for you. Journalist/Broadcaster DeCaro possesses a detail knowledge of the subject because he says he has always been a ‘drag hag.’ We…
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London LGBT Homeless get its first ever Shelter
London LGBTQ Homeless Shelter has been given a permement home, complete with community centre, in a disused Fire Station in Shoreditch. The Mayor Sadiq Khan pitched is some £50,000 to convert the 100 year old building which had been closed since 2014, and which made it possible LGBTQ homelessness charity The Outside Project to proceed…
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How to Get From Here to There
Sci-Fi is a film genre we rarely see in moveies with LGBTQ story lines, and maybe there is a good reason for that . This low-budget debut feature from Kevin James Thornton who wrote, directed and starred in. plus writing & performing some of the music tracks is one such film which, even with…
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Game Girls : a lesbian couple making a life together of sorts on Skid Row
Game Girls the sophomore documentary from Alina Skrzeszewska filmed in cinema-verite mode is a highly emotional view of the rocky relationship of two African/American young lesbians living in LA’s notorious Skid Row which seems like the end of the world. When the film starts Terim who is coping with mental illness, is going to…
