2024
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Karla Murphy talks about LOVE JAMIE : a remarkable touching story about Jamie Diaz a 65 years old transwoman prison inmate
Jamie Diaz is a 65-year-old trans woman and artist who has spent nearly 30 years in a men’s prison in Texas. Using the limited paint supplies available to her and brushes she fashions from her own hair, Jamie creates bold and graphic paintings awash in color and symbolism. In 2013, Gabriel Joffe came across…
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Tom Zimberoff : Drag/Strip™ ….. American Kabuki
Tom Zimberoff was born in Los Angeles, a child of the Fifties. He was raised there and in Las Vegas, Nevada. As proficient with a clarinet as with a camera, he succumbed to the lure of photography while studying music at the USC School of Performing Arts. “Portrait photography,” he says, “is a…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE GREATEST an award winning drama about queer life in the 1960s
Before 1969’s Stonewall riots, queer life in New York was largely quite brutal. Homophobia was rife. The NYPD regularly raided the few gay bars that existed, harassing, beating and arresting patrons on trumped-up charges, often releasing their names to the press and their families, outing them to cause maximum distress. This frequently led…
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New Music for PRIDE Month : Ben Platt, Michael Musto and Crystal Waters (with Andy Bell)
With the start of Gay Pride TODAY here’s a listen/look to some new music to kick the month off. Queer Tony Award winning actor/singer Ben Platt (‘Dear Evan Hansen’) is appearing for three weeks in NY’s fabled Palace Theater (think Judy Garland) as part of a 21-city North American tour , Its to promote…
