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‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ : a personal take on how Kevin Smith’s film affected a 12-year-old queer kid’s coming-of-age
Chasing Amy, the third film from actor, comedian, and writer Kevin Smith was considered a critical and commercial success in 1997. The film is about a male comic artist (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a woman (Joey Lauren Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Jason Lee). Intriguing as it was,…
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Georg Meyer-Weil: RIVERMAN his new solo exhibit at London’s Fitzrovia Gallery
In his 2023 solo Exhibition RIVERMAN at the Fitzrovia Gallery in London, George Meyer-Weil shows a new body of works on paper and canvas, depicting the male figure along waterways. His latest paintings reveal man as a small part of a much larger ‘picture’ referencing his elemental collectedness to water and the natural…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ‘CANDY GIGI Friday Night Sinner’ …. in which NOTHING is off-limits
Candy Gigi Friday Night Sinner★★★★ Soho Theatre London There are some things that only a woman can say about being a woman. There are some things that only a Jewish person can say about being Jewish. Candy Gigi says, sings, shouts and vomits them all at the Soho Theatre. And it’s hilarious. Candy Gigi believes…
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Jesus and his Muscle Daddy Followers
So this is what the rabid right wing in Europe are bursting blood vessels this week. Swedish lesbian photographer Elisabeth Ohlson has an exhibition in the corridors of the European Parliament Building in Belgium and included the picture above. Jesus surrounded by leather-clad muscle daddies has been branded “vulgar”, “disrespectful” and “blasphemous” by…
