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There Are Things To Do : a Celebration of the life of URVASHI VAID ….. an extraordinary human being and a queer icon

  Most of us who are part of the LGBTQ+ community in Provincetown probably shared the same passions as local rights activist, and lawyer, Urvashi Vaid, but unlike her, none of us ever did much about it.  Our lives here however are all unwittingly so richly improved because of her unceasing energies in her fights … Continue reading

Third Wedding : but its not all about love

  The latest drama from Cannes Winner Belgian Filmmaker David Lambert (Beyond The Walls) is farce-like comedy that plays fast and loose with a Belgian ‘Green Card’ situation. When silver-headed gay bear Martin (Bouli Lanners) buries his younger husband after a fatal car crash he is left with his grief and very large debts.  On … Continue reading

This is Joan Collins : she bares all in this excellent new documentary

  You don’t have to be British (or queer) to appreciate that 88-year-old actress Joan Collins really is a national treasure.  Made a Dame by HM The Queen, she has always been the nearest thing that we Brits ever had to old-style Holywood Glamour. Her rollercoaster personal life took her through her marriages, and affairs … Continue reading

This is not Berlin : Art, politics and music collide in Mexican nightlife

  Set against the background of the 1986 Mexico World Cup This is Not Berlin throws together a cast of creative misfits who are trying to change themselves, or the world, into something that works better for them. The drama is serious without being somber as sobriety is thrown up into the gutter during the … Continue reading

This Is What Love In Action Looks Like

1n 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder.  Later that same year ‘LOVE IN ACTION’ was founded by an evangelical Christian ministry specifically ‘to restore those trapped in sexual and relational sin through the power of Jesus Christ’ i.e. to forcible make gay men straight.  As the oldest established ‘ex-gay’ organization in the US it … Continue reading

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