2017
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Alaska is a Drag
In her enchanting feature debut writer/director Shaz Bennett spares no punches in showing how brutal and isolated Alaska can be especially if you are anything different than the norm. Leo (newcomer Martin L. Washington Jr.) is just that and more. He may work gutting fish in a Cannery by day, but at night this black gay…
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Freak Show
Sometimes even casting a 3 time Golden Globe Winner (and two-time Oscar nominee) cannot save a movie from being a disappointing convoluted mess like Freak Show is. Bette Midler sails through her cameo performance as the on/off alcoholic mother (Muv) of Billy Bloom ( a remarkably good Alex Lawther) who is the protagonist in this…
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After Louie’s Vincent Gagliostro on daring us to dream again
The veteran gay activist/author/playwright Larry Kramer was right. Again. After Louie is indeed a movie that had to be made. Filmmaker Vincent Gagliostro talks about his directing debut with this powerful and entertaining inter-generational drama about AIDS. Starring Alan Cumming and Zachary Booth the story tackles how we are all coping now the the…
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What the Hanky Code really means.
Back in the days when Gay Bars were very noisy and distracting some bright spark invented the Hanky Code as a means signaling to others what your sexual preferences and interests are. The trouble is that some aficionados took it way to seriously and expanded the options so much that you had to have the…
