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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Ballez : ballet with a queer agenda
When Misty Copeland was finally promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theater last year, she became the first African American woman to be given this honor in their 75 years of existence. This is a very vivid reminder that even in this day and age the world of ballet is still one of the…
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Fire Song
Even as queer cinema continues to keep evolving it is still something of a surprise to discover yet another new barrier has been broken with the first movie from an unexpected provenance. Writer/director Adam Garnet Jones has done just that by setting and actually making his feature film, a very tender coming-of-age drama, in a First Nation reservation…
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I’m A Sex Worker, But I’m Not ….
BuzzFeed has produced a powerful new video that goes a long way to help de-mystifying the role of sex workers in our community today. It is, as the three interviewed claim, just another job. One that they are proud and open about, and that they are eager to discuss to dispel some of the many…
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Weiner
Anthony Weiner has a big set of balls. He kept out of the public eye for a couple of years following his resignation from Congress in 2011 after tweeting obscene photographs of his not-very-private parts to several women and then lying through his teeth about them. Now in 2013 he has come back from the political dead…
