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Two On The Rope : are scene stealers at the Berlinale Teddy Award Party
The TEDDY AWARD has been presented at the Berlin International Film Festival for 38 years. It is the oldest and most important queer film award in the world, recognizing films and individuals that communicate issues of social diversity and contribute to greater tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society. The TEDDY AWARD ceremony with…
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Sacred Days : new music from the heart by Jason Gould
57-year-old queer actor/singer Jason Gould has been laying low for some time because (as he told SF Gate back in 2000) When I was a kid I couldn’t go anywhere without photographers in my face. It’s like being attacked. I really don’t. like fame and what goes with that. I grew up in it.” …
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Andrew Haigh’s ALL OF US STRANGERS is finally rewarded as it sweeps the board at the DORIANS
2023 was a particularly good year for some excellent queer cinema, but you wouldn’t have known that if you have been following all the major Award Shows this year. The Oscars managed to nominate Colman Domingo for Rustin …… the only 2nd time in the Academy’s history that a gay man was nominated for…
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The World of Radical Glamour “SUNDAYS AT CAFÉ TABAC” Chronicles The Legendary Lesbian Night In NY’S East Village (1993-95)
It is no secret that lesbian bars and spaces in the US are rapidly disappearing. Back in 2020, Queerguru ran a review of The Lesbian Bar Project about there only being 15 left (see https://queerguru.com/15-lesbian-bars-left-in-the-us-join-the-fight-back/). With the progress of LGBTQ rights, visibility and safe spaces, and social life considerably shifted over onto…
