2022
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MID-CENTURY MODERNS A Hilarious Tale of Personal Triumph Set to Beloved 60’s Music
The last time we met ex-Farm Boy turned screenwriter/director MARK CHRISTOPHER he had just successfully launched a Directors Cut of STUDIO 54 his documentary. He was feeling very joyful as this is something that so many filmmakers dream about being able to achieve. When we parted he was off to start a new life…
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Cobalt Blue : when a brother and sister both fall in love with the same handsome stranger
Homosexuality was just decriminalized in India in 2018 but there has been a small steady flow of LGBT movies for a few years before that. Because of the legal situation and society’s taboos, many were made on the down-low and struggled to find a way to access the audience they deserved. However some…
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Fellow Travellers : Gay Love in the McCarthy Era
Gregory Spears’s critically acclaimed opera Fellow Travellers based on Thomas Mallon’s novel about gay love in the notorious McCarthy Era is having its Florida debut thanks to the Florida Grand Opera. It is set against a background of homophobic paranoia in the 1950s’ where gay men and women were publicly hounded and humiliated in…
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Queer Utopias on the Dancefloor and Beyond
Facing the AIDS crisis and an indifferent mainstream culture at best, an outright hostile one at worst, L.A.’s Gen X LGBTQ+ community found a home for themselves in the performance spaces, and on the dancefloors of clubs like Jewel’s Catch One, Arena, Club Chico, The Palms, Paradise Ballroom, Outer Limits, and Circus. While many…
