2021
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‘Coming Out” 1989 : the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany.
‘Coming Out” is a unique part of queer history being the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany. And if that is not enough, it actually premiered on November 9th 1989 …. the day the Berlin Wall fell. The story centers on a young teacher Philipp (Matthias Freihof) who enters a…
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Wish We Were There : Complete PEDRO ALMODOVAR RESPECTIVE goes Down Under
Every queer movie fan should be heading direct to Ritz Cinema in Sydney Australia for the biggest cinematic treat of 2022. They are mounting PEDRO ALMODÓVAR: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE of the entire catalog of the work of one of the world’s greatest queer auteurs. It will feature 22 films from the two-time Academy Award…
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Molly Parton : the last Queen of Bohemia
There is an inexplicable link between gay men and flamboyant larger than life women. Especially in the UK where eccentricity is a character trait that is both encouraged and even worshiped. These women are the epitome of queer, although nearly all of them are heterosexual albeit often convoluted. Sometimes labeled bohemian they are iconic…
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Andy Warhol. Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962
On Valentine’s Day in 1956 ANDY WARHOL first exhibited his very graphic drawings at the Bodley Gallery on New York’s Upper East Side. Warhol been working on this series of elegant line drawings celebrating queer love – a style and subject that couldn’t be less fitting to the American audience of the day.…
