2017
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Angels In America Minus One
For some unexplained reason when the UK’s National Theatre’s acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner’s ANGELS IN AMERICA transfers to Broadway next year, it will be lacking one ‘angel’ from the cast. Whilst his fellow stars Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield will be in the American production, Brit actor Russell Tovey (who also starred in ‘Looking’)…
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Being Gay in Trumpland
NY photographer and F.I.T Professor Ron Amato has created the most powerful photographic essay on how he believes that the U.S. has engaged in a war against the LGBTQ community. “Beginning with the selection of a running mate who is unabashedly anti-gay, to a series of presidential nominations of people with histories of anti-gay agendas,…
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SHOWER : a short film about repressed sexuality
After being shortlisted for the prestigious IRIS Prize four years ago, this controversial Norwegian short film directed by Henry K. Norvalls has been playing the Film Festival circuit, but is now available to view free online for the first time. It’s a story about the consequences of repressed sexuality after a man overhears…
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What is LGBTQ art?
There is a wonderful new Course at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum next month which addresses the whole issue of what is LGBTQ art. It is a question that goes to the nature of art itself as well as LGBTQ identities and cultures. By using key objects in V&A’s rather magnificent collection, the course will…