culture
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Carol : all the glances …..
queerguru is a tad skeptical about a new list of the 30 Best LGBT Movies of all time that BFI Flare released yesterday to mark their own 30th Anniversary as they placed Todd Haynes’s Carol as Number 1. Now as anyone who reads this Blog regularly will know that queerguru has been shouting about this…
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Looking at Mapplethorpe
2016 is going to be a good year to look at the work of the celebrated controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. First there is a brand new documentary by the prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato (‘Party Monster’ ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’) called Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures . It had…
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Son of a Preacher Man
Openly gay singer/songwriter Tom Goss draws on his own experience as a one time student at Catholic Seminary for his powerful and beautiful new take on Dusty Springfield’s classic from 1968 ‘The Son of Preacher Man’. In the video Goss tells the story of two gay teens coming to terms with both their sexuality and…
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Disengaged
When SCOTUS made their landmark ruling that finally made same-sex marriage legal in the U.S. the whole tenor of the reasoning behind the struggle did a seismic shift in many gay households from ‘can we marry?’ to ‘do we have to marry?’ Many people reasoned that now we had won the battle, then the very least…
