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Beach Rats
It’s refreshing to find that filmmakers still have new LGBT coming-out stories that are fresh and throw a different perspective on what is inevitably a difficult rite-of-passage for most gay youth. For her sophomore feature writer/director Eliza Hittman sets her story in Brooklyn where 19 year-old Frankie (Harris Dickinson) is struggling hard to find his own identity, sexual…
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SHARON MCNIGHT : Songs To Offend Almost Everyone
For a woman who is famous for her bawdy (actually dirty) songs Sharon McNight is actually as sweet as pie. The legendary diva and Tony nominated actress is back in #Ptown again with her hysterically funny show SONGS TO OFFEND ALMOST EVERYONE at Sage Inn which is THE perfect way to round off a perfect summer. Sharon McNight talks to Roger Walker-Dack for…
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David France talks about HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
When filmmaker David France was at #PIFF2016 with his new movie The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson we seized the moment to also talk to him about How To Survive A Plague his Oscar Awards Nominated documentary recognized as THE seminal work on the AIDS pandemic, and which is really essential viewing for the entire #LGBTQ community and beyond. The documentary is NOW available on Netflix & Amazon.com and…
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Drag Queens Always Tell The Best Stories
There was a time when just being gay or lesbian would get you fired from your job as a teacher everywhere (and sadly in some cities and States that is still the case). However times they are a-changing at least in most urban settings such as in Toronto where kindergarten school teacher John Paul Kane…
