politics
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LBJ
When you can get beyond staring at all the effort the prosthetic team have made to transform Woody Harrelson into looking like the leathery Lyndon B Johnson, then you can enjoy the fun that Harrelson has with his hammy over-the-top performance that is actually quite a joy to watch. This new engrossing biopic on the…
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Don’t Forget To Remember
Yesterday London Underground (known locally as ‘the Tube’) unveiled a stunning series of artworks by the late Australian artist/LGBT activist David McDiarmid that reference the AIDS Crisis. McDiarmid who died aged 43 in 1995 was known for his Rainbow Aphorisms that he produced in response to his own, and his community’s, experience of the AIDS…
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Puerto Rico : It’s Almost Like Praying
With the idiot POTUS too busy on the golf course to do anything at all about all the desolate and stranded people in Puerto Rico struggling to survive, others have thankfully stepped up to the plate. Lin-Manuel Miranda the creator and star of Hamilton has created and just released, “Almost Like Praying,” a song to raise…
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Celebrate NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY with BBC America’s QUEERS
The BBC in London have been making a whole slew of excellent queer TV programs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act — which partially decriminalized homosexual acts between men in the UK. Finally they are showing a series on eight short films called QUEERS in the US on their BBC…
