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At the Gay Mens Dance Club dance your heart out …… and maybe even meet someone to give it too
The UK Gay Men’s Dance Company (GMDC) has been going strong in London since it was started in 2015 by dancer, dance teacher and choreographer Alex Scurr . It’s success is not just because as gay men we are all convinced we have a gene that makes us want to dance (as if) but because…
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Beyoncé’s HOMECOMING debuts on Netflix
Netflix has just revealed it will be screening Beyoncé’s film HOMECOMINg next week on April 17th. The documentary filmed at Coachella Festival last year show’s the singers stunning performance that paid tribute to historically black colleges and universities. (In fact many of them will get a Preview Screening before the general release). In the…
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Red Joan: Judi Dench plays a spy in this rather leaden drama
The most traitorous act about this British spy story would be to admit that one didn’t like (Dame) July Dench’s performance as the octogenarian widow suddenly arrested by the Authorities for what she got up to at University in the 1940’s. The hesitation is not a reflection of her in anyway, but in the…
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Queer musician Fiorious wants us to know he is not Defeated
Bronx born queer musician FIORIOUS has turned his activism into a glorious dance anthem that is impossible to ignore. I’m Not Defeated from his forthcoming album Revisionary is his very personal powerful call-to-resistance with the lyrics drawing on his pain while he taps into the very real turmoil that exists in the world around…
