culture
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Barbara : an iconic French Diva
queerguru’s Parisian correspondent has just sent us news about a stunning biopic that is the latest sensation in movie theaters over there. Barbara is the story of the late famous chanteuse whose songs included “L’Aigle noir” which sold 1 million copies in just 12 hours in the 1960’s. She cut a very dramatic figure, a tall…
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Lena Waithe wins an Emmy & acknowledges her LGBTQIA family
(Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)[/caption] Lena Waithe, actor and writer on Netflix’s Master of None, who deservedly made history when she won best writing for a comedy series at the Emmys Sunday night, quoted Congresswoman Maxine Walters with her “Let me reclaim my time’. Waithe the first African-American woman to win in…
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Walking Out with Matt Bomer
Lucky Palm Springs. Local film producers Jim Burba and Bob Hayes are proudly presenting the first screening of their new film ‘Walking Out’ on October 12 to benefit Desert AIDS Project. So what’s so special about this new film that premiered at Sundance in January to great reviews? Well, it has MATT BOMER playing a daddy!…
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War Within
American/Palestinian singer/actor/filmmaker ZAHER SALEH’s deeply moving short film ‘The War Within’ tells a personal story of a gay Muslim man’s struggle to reconcile his sexuality with his faith, his longing for acceptance from his family and his journey to love and accept himself. The movie was released earlier this summer by We Are One+Together…
