2016
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Trump should ask Margarita Pracatan to perform at Inauguration
It’s the holiday season and queerguru is just like everyone else and is being pressured to give peace and joy to all men (Bah humbug!). If that also means the Orange Faced Man about to illegally squat in The White House, then the least we can do (!) is help him find someone to…
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The Stately Homos of England
Britain’s National Trust are the latest official august body to announce plans to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act effectively criminalizing homosexuality in 2017. The Trust founded in 1895 is a conservation organization which owns over 350 heritage properties which includes many of the country’s finest historic houses and gardens,…
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The Salesman
Ever since writer/director Asghar Farhadi became the first Iranian filmmaker to win a Oscar and a Golden Globe in 2011 for his stunning movie A Separation, he has continued to helm compelling dramas of domestic discord that show the uneasiness of women’s roles in contemporary Iranian society. The Salesman starts very dramatically with the impending collapse…
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Julieta
For his latest movie …….his 20th …..Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has done a 360 degree turn from his last film the outrageously camp farce ‘I’m So Excited‘ and eschewed comedy completely to make one of his excellent signature female-centric melodramas. Julieta is loosely based on three short stories from the Canadian Pulitizer-Prize writer Janet Munro and…
