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Lost Queer Classic Drifter Resurrected
By David-Elijah Nahmod Pat Rocco (1934-2018) was ahead of his time. A gay activist during the days and years before Stonewall, Rocco had the courage to make queer themed films
Screen Queen
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14 LGBTQ-Inclusive Films From This Year’s Sundance Film Fest to Watch For
By Mikey Rox Virtual screenings and collaborative showings with partner organizations across the country allowed home audiences to enjoy Sundance Film Festival’s elevated and celebrated independent films — for $15
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Criterion Films Celebrate Diversity in All Its Forms
By Chris Azzopardi ‘Paris Is Burning In Paris Is Burning, a strut is a defiant act, an exertion of suppressed power. In the mid-to-late 1980s, when the landmark documentary was
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The Johns
By Chris Azzopardi ‘Polyester’ John Waters staged a live chicken decapitation for his 1969 debut feature Mondo Trasho. In the following year’s Multiple Maniacs, he made anal sex with rosary
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Can’t Stop the Music
By Chris Azzopardi Three Men and a Baby actor Steve Guttenberg is on roller skates, and that’s just the beginning of Can’t Stop the Music, the quasi-autobiographical film about the
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Fall 2018
By Chris Azzopardi Won’t You Be My Neighbor? For over 30 years, national treasure Fred Rogers welcomed kids who felt different to his “neighborhood.†Maybe you were there, enchanted by
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Oscars at Home
By Chris Azzopardi | Unforgettable moments from Academy Award-winning gay faves, yours forever to stream Call Me By Your Name Oliver (Armie Hammer) is facedown on the bed, fully clothed.