2017
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Santa and Andrés : a heart-breaking queer Cuban tale
Cuban filmmaker Carlos Lechuga’s second feature film Santa and Andrés is a heart-breaking compelling tale set in a remote part of Cuba at the beginning of the 1980’s. Andrés (Eduardo Martinez) is an openly-gay subversive writer who has been exiled to his hillside hovel of a shack and forbidden to write anything more against the governing…
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Miami : Bareback Follies are Back
The legendary club queen Susanne Bartsch is bringing her infamous Bareback Follies back to Miami next week on Tuesday February 28th for One Night Only at El Tucán. The club is a modern-day cabaret that reinvigorates the lavish dinner and show concepts of Havana, Cuba and perfect for the over-the-top outrageous and extravaganza that makes up the…
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A Very Sordid Wedding
Its been some 17 years since Del Shores’s movie Sordid Lives played for a record-breaking 96 weeks at the Palm Springs Movie Theater. Mainstream audiences elsewhere may have dismissed the movie all too quickly, but it wasn’t long before it became a beloved gay cult classic that even spurned a prequel TV series. Now we are…
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Memories of A Penitent Heart
When Cecilia Aldarondo’s mother was clearing her garage out in 2008 she called her daughter and asked if she would be interested in a box of decaying 8mm home movies and several hundred slides that she had just uncovered. Little did she know then when she agreed to take the box did she ever imagine the…
