politics
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BFI celebrates with 50 years of queer cinema
Everyone in the UK seems fully intent of not letting the 50th Anniversary of the passing of the Law to decriminalize homosexuality to slip by unnoticed. Now the latest organization to join in is the British Film Institute (BFI) who, amongst other things, run BFI Flare London’s annual LGBT Film Festival. In an announcement…
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The End of Silence : the notorious gay trials of 1950’s Frankfurt
Just a few years before President Eisenhower kicked off the biggest LGBT witchhunt in the US’s history which became known as The Lavender Scare, over in Germany they were having their own gay persecutions too. Not long after the end of WW2 when Germany was trying to re-build itself, and the LGBT community was emerging once…
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The Lavender Scare
Filmmaker Josh Howard’s inspiring new documentary that he co-directed with Jill Landes plays a crucial role in bringing to our attention a difficult period in LGBT history that we really should all know about, and never forget that The Lavender Scare is the story of what became the most successful witch hunt in American history…
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Transparent Show says This Is About All of Us
The cast and crew of the multi-award winning TV series TRANSPARENT took a day of filming to make this powerful PSA message in support of 17 year old Gavin Grimm. This brave high school senior’s lawsuit was set to be the first Supreme Court case involving transgender rights. But then Trump came along determined…
