2016
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Filmmaker Eric Juhola talks about Growing Up Coy
The Mathis are a remarkable family whose courage and determination rarely faltered when they supported their youngest child Coy who started transitioning from male to female in kindergarten after it was clear that Coy felt he was a girl. Growing Up Coy documents the family’s fight for her right to use the girls’ bathroom in a landmark…
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Marianne Breslauer’s 1930’s gender-bending women
Marianne Breslauer’s career as a photographer in Berlin in the Weimer Republic was cut short with the advent of World War 2, and in fact only lasted from 1927 -1938. Being Jewish she had trouble getting her work published in Germany so she emigrated to Amsterdam as the Nazis were gaining power, and then moved…
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Happy 82nd Birthday Dame Maggie
With all this talk about the iconic divas who have left us in 2016, it’s a kind of a nice change to celebrate the birthday of one who is very much with us and still working at the ripe old age of 82. Dame Maggie Smith CH DBE, 6 time Oscar nominee and 2 time winner,…
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So Farewell China and Nana : RIP
To borrow an expression from H.M. The Queen, 2016 has been an ‘annus horribilis‘, and the LGBT community in particular has said goodbye to so many icons/allies/friends that the deaths of some of the less famous ones are sidelined and almost over-looked. queerguru wants to honor a couple of amazing women from totally different walks…
