2020
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Rise London : Saam Farahmand’s stunning video highlights youth homelessness during lockdown
It’s so easy to forget that while we are at home bitching about sheer inconvenience of the COVID Lockdown , there are others also going through it too BUT without the luxury of actually having a home where they can sit the pandemic out. Some homeless youth in London may be lucky enough to…
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Bitter Years : the life of Italian Gay Liberationist Mario Mieli
Celebrated Italian queer theater and film director Andrea Adriatico’s latest movie is a biopic of Mario Mieli who was a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s. Mieli may be little known outside of Italy but his fascinating colorful life that abruptly ended when he was just 30 years old, makes…
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Tom Shepard @ UNSETTLED : Seeking Refuge in America
TOM SHEPARD started his excellent and unsettling documentary about the plight of a handful of LGBTQ refugees in what we now wistfully call the ‘good old days’ i.e. pre 2016. Up to then this country stood by its centuries old policy of giving refugee to all those in need. His cameras show us the…
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Gay Dating Apps want us all to be NiceAF
So we love to talk about the good things that are emerging out of this Lockdown which are making us re-evaluate parts of our lives. We don’t know why it has taken so long but most of the major dating platforms for gay men have teamed up to introduce the NiceAF.org. In the first ever…
