culture
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Trans Youth talk about the labels society hangs on them
In this new short film by award-winning trans filmmaker/activist Jake Graf he simply asked trans youth about the labels put on them by society. The result is a powerful message challenging the stigma of what it means to be trans today. Like all of Graf’s work it makes an essential contribution to the continuing dialogue…
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Go-Go Reject
Did you grow up as a skinny schoolkid dreaming that when you grew up you’d be a dancer just like Jennifer Beals in the 1983 hit movie Flashdance? Well, Daniel did, but when he finally plucked up the nerve to go audition to be a Go-Go Boy he was turned down because he was still…
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Kareem Tabsch revisits vintage Miami Beach
The Last Resort is a wonderful new documentary that celebrates the work of Andy Sweet & Gary Monroe two photographers who brilliantly captured the authentic Miami Beach of the 1970’s and 1980s’ producing some stunning iconic images, before Sweet’s tragic murder in 1982. queerguru talks to filmmaker Kareem Tabsch (who co-directed the film with Dennis Scholl…
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ELLA MARQUES talks about being A Boy From Venus
Ella Marques is an extraordinary woman who chose to start transitioning when she was 60 years old. She wrote about her journey to finally being true to herself in a refreshingly frank and enthralling memoir I WAS A BOY FROM VENUS. Ella sat down to talk to queerguru on the eve of her Book Signing at Stonewall National…
