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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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AUDIBLE : a story of loss, love and triumph at a Deaf High School
In his new short movie, AUDIBLE filmmaker Matthew Ogens abandons us all so quickly. We are so totally engrossed in the story of his finely nuanced documentary that when it ends in 44 minutes we feel almost robbed. He makes it impossible for us not to feel so connected with his cast of deaf…
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British Naval Officer is the first openly gay man to receive Meritorious Medal for his LGBTQ work
It’s just 20 years since the UK changed its laws to permit openly gay men and women to serve in the Armed Services (and a bare 10 years since the US followed suit). It was after all one of the most ridiculous laws as when it came to wartime the authorities were happy to…
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The Long Call : a new Brit crime drama with a queer love twist
We learned two significant facts in the first episode of the Long Call a new Brit TV crime mini-series (available worldwide via Brit-Box). First, the title of this seaside drama is also the noise made by a herring gull …. but more importantly this was the first police drama where the male lead detective…
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‘UPRISING – Let the Record Show – A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
LGBTQ activist, author, and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman is back to London for a 2-day to launch her latest book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York (2020). It’s the result which is the result of more than 200 interviews conducted over 18 years and is a long-overdue reassessment- of…
