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Alone In The Game : a new look at homophobia in Sports
Sport is still one of the last bastions of homophobia. For every brave gay man or woman who dares to stick their head over the parapet and publicly ‘come out,’ there are thousands of professional athletes and sportsmen and women who are scared rigid about all the negative consequences that come with revealing their sexuality. There have…
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Westwood: Punk. Icon. Activist
The opening lines of this documentary are very surprisingly ‘just let me talk and get it over with’. They are spoken by Dame Vivienne Westwood herself an iconic fashion genius who it turns out is also a mass of contradictions. Such as agreeing to give unlimited access to filmmaker and former model Lorna Tucker to make…
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Al Berto
This biopic from filmmaker Vicente Alves do Ó is a fictionalized and highly dramatic account of a traumatic period in the life of the gay Portuguese Poet Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares who was universally known simply as Al Berto. It’s set in the mid-1970’s when a very young Al Berto (Ricardo Teixeira) has just returned home to…
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Big Law for Big Boys (and Girls)
Jack Tracy the very funny (and hardly unattractive) man behind the hit LGBTQ web series HISTORY is today launching his latest web comedy BIG LAW which once again, is loosely based on his own personal experiences. Not a man known to do things by halves, Tracy is the show’s executive producer, writer, director and also a…
