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Logo Announces 2016 Groundbreaking Documentary Slate Featuring LGBT Heroes

Logo announced a series of new documentary films that showcase topical social issues and illuminate untold stories of LGBT individuals overcoming incredible odds. The upcoming slate from Logo Documentary Films includes stories of a professional athlete who battles and overcomes mental illness, soldiers who fall in love before seeing their romance ripped apart by war, and a group of female inmates who give real-life context to “Orange is the New Black.” Last month, Logo Documentary Films earned its first Emmy nomination for “Matt Shepard is A Friend of Mine,” which premiered last year and is nominated for a Daytime Emmy […]

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Film Review: “Girl Gets Girl”

Inés’s (Celia Freijeiro) life is always a mess because she simply wants it all.  Or at least she wants to make out with every single good looking girl that she comes across regardless of the circumstances.  We learn this in the opening moments of this hilarious Spanish farce in which it seems that every woman in the world is gay, or at the very least thinking about it.  Inés is at the funeral of the Uncle of her Miami-cop girlfriend when she makes out in the bathroom with her girlfriend’s younger cousin, and then five minutes later is being threatened by a […]

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Book Review: ‘The Cosmopolitans’ by Sarah Schulman

Welcome to 10th Street, Greenwich Village, 1958. This is New York City on the cusp of a new modernity: marketing, brands, and television are ushering in the commercial age, and Sarah Schulman’s latest novel, The Cosmopolitans, is set right in the thick of it. The Cosmopolitans opens with Bette, a white secretary exiled from her Midwestern family, watching the world outside her second-story apartment the way others do movies. Life teems below, and Bette—single, in her 50s, nurturing a longstanding unrequited love—is keen to it all, creating stories to fit upon her neighbors and passersby. As Bette watches, she waits […]

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Film Review: “Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures”

  Many people know the name Robert Mapplethorpe and the fact that he took some pretty rude photos. However, the man himself has become somewhat lost in the mix. Indeed, perhaps the best known thing about him happened after he died. His exhibition The Perfect Moment caused protests in many of the cities it travelled to, which launched a national conversation about whether the government should subsidise such ‘shocking’ art. It also resulted in a court case that charged one of the exhibition spaces showing The Perfect Moment with obscenity. That’s not the only thing that’s tended to obscure the man […]

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Film Review: ‘Fire Song’

Even as queer cinema continues to keep evolving it is still something of a surprise to discover yet another new barrier has been broken with the first movie from an unexpected provenance. Writer/director Adam Garnet Jones has done just that by setting and actually making his feature film, a very tender coming-of-age drama, in a First Nation reservation in the North of Canada where he also hails from, with an entire cast of indigenous locals. His story centers around Shane (a very talentedAndrew Martin) a bright teenager who wants to seize the opportunity to go to study in Toronto, and escape the confines of living on […]

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Film Review: ‘I Promise You Anarchy’

  Teenage Miguel (Diego Calva) has two major passions in his life.  His boyfriend Johnny (Eduardo Eliseo Martinez) who just happens to be the son of his wealthy family’s maid, and skateboarding. Whilst Johnny may share these passions ….. well, definitely the latter …. he also has a very jealous girlfriend too.  They all live in Mexico City albeit in quite opposite settings as Johnny is living rough on the streets and always on the look out to make some easy money. These two young men jump at the chance of getting involved with some petty criminal plot that involves rounding […]

Film Review: ‘Clambake’

  This new documentary from veteran lesbian filmmaker Andrea Meyerson (‘Laughing Matters’) is an affectionate look at one of the oldest and non-commercial women’s events in the US that celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2014.  The highly successful Provincetown Women’s Week started out as idea by a few of the women innkeepers in the town to encourage some visitors back to town in the Fall after the lucrative summer season had ended. Also more importantly they wanted to establish a safe and welcoming environment for the lesbian community to get together and nurture, but even though they started this with […]

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Film Review: ‘Made in Bangcock’

  When Argentinian film buff Flavio Florencio first went to Mexico some years ago his friends took him to a ‘cantina’ to watch a cabaret full of transvestite performers which totally fascinated him.  He was very curious to know how they all spent their daytime lives off the stage, and he decided that there was probably a good story amongst them just waiting to be told. After visiting these clubs ever weekend for several months, Florencio found Morgana an operatic soprano whose singing totally entranced him, and after hearing her story, he knew that she would be the subject of […]

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Book Review: ‘Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas’ by Betsy Warland

Betsy Warland’s new book Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas travels seven years, multiple countries, and three continents. Vibrant and pulsating with life, Oscar of Between, like Warland’s other works, demonstrates Warland’s multiple engagements with crucial—and contemporary—literary, political, and aesthetic questions. Warland is a prolific writer and formidable intellectual. Her oeuvre includes ten collections of poetry, two co-written with her then-lover and collaborator Daphne Marlatt. Warland’s memoir, Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss, blends the narrative impulse of prose with a poetic sensibility like Oscar of Between. Her 2010 writing manual, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act […]

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Film Review: ‘Weekends’

  It took the members of G-Voice South Korea’s oldest gay male choir a long time and a great deal of discussions before all the members agreed to this documentary to be made. Most gay Koreans are by nature quite conservative and they are usually reticence to talk about their sexuality, but in this instance as Lee Dong-ha the filmmaker was also a member of the choir, they let their guards down more than normal and seemed to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the project. Since 2003 G-Voice has been meeting in Seoul every weekend to rehearse. In some cases their […]

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