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Ryan O’Connell’s groundbreaking comedy about a gay man with cerebral palsy launches on Netflix
Although The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons and his husband Todd Spiewak have been grabbing all the headlines for being the Executive Producer of an exciting new ground-breaking LGBT TV comedy series currently being made by Netflix, the real credit belongs to Ryan O’Connell. “Special’ is not only based on O’Connells’ memoir ‘I’m Special:…
The Killing of Sister George
Robert Aldrich’s stunning movie of Frank Marcus’s Broadway hit play was way head of its time when it was released in 1968. It was one of the first to ever get an X rating from the Censors, the Catholic Church loudly condemned it as ‘immoral trash’, respected Film Critics of the day bitterly dismissed it,…
Victim
This was the first serious approach to homosexuality the cinema had ever made. Made in Britain in 1961 where, as in the US, being gay was still a crime, the movie was actually banned from American theaters simply because it used the word ‘homosexual’. The story is of a handsome young man called ‘Boy’ Barrett who…