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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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What is LGBTQ art?
There is a wonderful new Course at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum next month which addresses the whole issue of what is LGBTQ art. It is a question that goes to the nature of art itself as well as LGBTQ identities and cultures. By using key objects in V&A’s rather magnificent collection, the course will…
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Man -Up Malcolm Turnball
The right-wing Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is trying to dodge the inevitability of making same-sex legal in his country by passing the buck. Instead of just passing a law that he has the power to do, he has set up a postal vote, which is informal and not regulated by any law. asking the…
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Becks
A rather compelling Tony Award Winner Lena Hall in her first starring role in a movie, makes this rather cute musical a much more entertaining experience than one may have otherwise expected from what is a somewhat very predictable drama. Hall plays Becks an aspiring musician who packs up her life in New York…
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Viceroy’s House
Gurinder Chadha’s well intended but rather stilted epic period drama about how the British badly managed their withdrawal from India exactly 70 years ago, lands in movie theaters at a time when the UK is now making rather a mess at leaving Europe too. In telling the tale of how Britain ended up splitting India…
