culture
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Arrival : a touching animated coming-of-age tale
Arrival is a stunning new animated short film that tells a vivid and poignant tale of a young man’s close relationship with his mother and his struggle to reconcile it with his newly-embraced gay identity as he starts a life in the big city. The two have always had a special bond communicated through the…
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Red Hot & Ready
We may have not even reached the half-way mark of 2017, but the men at Red Hot are already thinking about 2018. That, and baring all. They have just released a sneak preview of next year’s calendar and it looks like it is going to be even more of a scorcher than before. These Brit…
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All We Ever Needed Was Love
Fifty years ago, give or take a day or two, performers representing 19 countries from around the world appeared on Our World, the first ever international television production broadcast by satellite. An estimated 400 million viewers watched the two-and-a-half hour program, which featured talent including Pablo Picasso and Maria Callas and was closed out…
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Run(a)way Arab
It’s nigh on impossible not to really like Amrou Al-Kadhi an out and proud queer Iraqi drag queen / activist / writer / actor / journalist / filmmaker. He is also disarmingly charming to boot. The London-based founder and star of Denim the drag superstar group has always been such an articulate advocate about being…
