2014
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The Last One
During a Candlelight Memorial to slain gay politician Harvey Milk in San Francisco in 1985 Cleve Jones who had been an Intern for Milk and two years ago prior had co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation came up with the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It took him and his colleagues another two years…
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A Reunion
Josh and Michael have barely kept in touch with each other since they graduated from University in Chicago ten years ago. Michael had ran off to teach English in a school in Japan whilst Josh moved to Los Angeles to make a name for himself in the music industry. Now they about to attend their 10…
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Regarding Susan Sontag
The writer/philosopher/political activist/filmmaker Susan Sontag gained both a reputation and a notoriety for her controversial work very early on in her career which stuck with her until her untimely death just aged 71. This new HBO documentary by Nancy Kates seems to deliberately set out to be a tribute to someone the director is clearly…
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Jimmy’s Hall
Jimmy Gralton returned to his native Ireland in 1932 when a new Government led by Eammon de Valera took office and at last promised peace after ‘the troubles’. Gralton’s eldest brother had recently died and his elderly mother was left trying to scrape a living off the poor infertile land on the Farm that the…
