culture
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After Louie’s Vincent Gagliostro on daring us to dream again
The veteran gay activist/author/playwright Larry Kramer was right. Again. After Louie is indeed a movie that had to be made. Filmmaker Vincent Gagliostro talks about his directing debut with this powerful and entertaining inter-generational drama about AIDS. Starring Alan Cumming and Zachary Booth the story tackles how we are all coping now the the…
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What the Hanky Code really means.
Back in the days when Gay Bars were very noisy and distracting some bright spark invented the Hanky Code as a means signaling to others what your sexual preferences and interests are. The trouble is that some aficionados took it way to seriously and expanded the options so much that you had to have the…
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Courtney Moorehead on Little Pink House
Writer/director Courtney Moorehead talks to queerguru about her new drama Little Pink House that stars Catherine Keener and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Based on a very real story about one woman’s battle against the vast Pfizer Corporation who wanted to compulsory purchase her beautiful riverside home to build a bigger factory to make more Viagra. Her battle…
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Bob Mizer’s Beefcake (NSFW)
The legendary photographer Bob Mizer’s career really took off in 1947 when he was convicted of the unlawful distribution of obscene material through the US mail. He had always been one who was known for pushing boundaries in his work, and in an era when the mere suggestion of male nudity was not only frowned upon but…
