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HERVÉ KOUBI What The Day Owes To The Night
The fact that the French-born choreographer Hervé Koubi only learned of his Algerian heritage as an adult is quite remarkable when you see what this discovery led too. The revelation prompted his first trip to Algiers at age of 25, where he held auditions, received 250 (mostly self-taught) dancers and selected twelve, whom he calls his…
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Miami’s Flaming Classics : a must for all queer film aficionados
We love the fact that our community keeps claiming back terms once thrown at us derogatively and which we now use as a celebration of our queerness. Flamers was one such word, and here it is now used describing a rather fabulous series of some outrageously wonderful LGBT films that so deserve reviving. Flaming Classics,…
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John Mahoney will always be Broken Hearts Club’s Jack to us
The British born veteran character actor JOHN MAHONEY has died aged 77. Best known in mainstream entertainment as the dad in the sitcom “Frasier” for all of its 11 seasons, portraying an ex-police officer often disturbed by the gentleness of his younger son Niles played by David Hyde Pierce. Although he never came out publicly as gay, he…
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BPM sweeps the boards at France’s Lumiere Awards
Just one week after it won GALECA’s prestigious DORIAN AWARD for Foreign Language Film, ROBIN CAMPILLO’S masterful movie BPM BEATS PER MINUTE seminal movie on the AIDS pandemic in France swept the boards of the LUMIERE AWARDS. It makes up in part for the fact that the American Academy failed to put the movie on the shortlist…
