Chicago
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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews ACTS OF LOVE: a film about moments of intimacy
As audiences, we are used to perceiving cinema as a coming together of various structural units – a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an ending. The director duo of Isidore Bethel and Francis Leplay are on a mission to dismantle this belief of ours. Their project Acts of Love is full…
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Warhol Retrospectives: Both Sides of The Pond
CHICAGO: ANDY WARHOL—FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN This first major retrospective of ANDY WARHOL curated by the Whitney Museum of American Art is now the current Exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago (running until January 2020). It’s a stunning selection of some 400 works by the Master of Pop Art which reflect…
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A Place To Be
When Abel (Nelson Rodriguez) meets Diego (Andrew Saenz ) it is literally love at first sight. These two young Latino men living in Chicago instantly bond in what we assume is going to be a gentle romantic story. However one day their world is upturned when Diego suddenly discovers that his mother is dying back home…
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When Chicago’s Belmont Rocks were a ‘gay paradise’
Any gay man of a ‘certain age’ who grew up in the Chicago area in the 1970’s & 1980’s would have most certainly spent some summer days at Belmont Rocks the city’s lakeside gay cruising area. On a large grassy expanse punctuated on one side by a series of tiered limestone blocks that separated the…
