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April Ashley : Vogue Model, restaurateur, style icon and trail-blazing transgender activist dies aged 86
The glamorous icon and trailblazing transgender activist April Ashley has died at age 86. She was a top Vogue model until she was cruelly outed by a British tabloid in 1961, and even though that damaged her modeling career, April still managed to lead the most exciting life packed to the gills. Boy George…
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‘Coming Out” 1989 : the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany.
‘Coming Out” is a unique part of queer history being the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany. And if that is not enough, it actually premiered on November 9th 1989 …. the day the Berlin Wall fell. The story centers on a young teacher Philipp (Matthias Freihof) who enters a…
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Wish We Were There : Complete PEDRO ALMODOVAR RESPECTIVE goes Down Under
Every queer movie fan should be heading direct to Ritz Cinema in Sydney Australia for the biggest cinematic treat of 2022. They are mounting PEDRO ALMODÓVAR: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE of the entire catalog of the work of one of the world’s greatest queer auteurs. It will feature 22 films from the two-time Academy Award…
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Molly Parton : the last Queen of Bohemia
There is an inexplicable link between gay men and flamboyant larger than life women. Especially in the UK where eccentricity is a character trait that is both encouraged and even worshiped. These women are the epitome of queer, although nearly all of them are heterosexual albeit often convoluted. Sometimes labeled bohemian they are iconic…
