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It’s already clear that 2018 will be remembered as a benchmark year for LGBTQ rights in India. But, can the same be said for queer cinema in India? Probably not! While gay and lesbian characters are finding finally their places in Western Cinema and Television, India is still way too behind. With only one LGBTQ […]… Continue reading 5 Reasons why we don’t make enough Gay Themes Movies in India? — Blued

Many moons ago, I remember how excited I was to go see Vampire Academy at the theatre. If memory serves right, this film, which currently holds a 5% rating on RottenTomatoes, was in and out of the multiplex so fast I never got to see it. Fast forward a few years later, and I finally […]… Continue reading Vampire Academy (2014) — Ten Stars or Less

[ad_1] Talia Shire. Now in the indie “Working Man.” About a factory closing, a husband fired, a marriage tough. Real fairy tale. “The story’s about fighting to keep a factory and a marriage. The real story’s about me quarantined in LA’s Westwood with three dogs. I’m a mystic so I pray, meditate, read, listen to […]… Continue reading Talia Shire on her newest, indie drama ‘Working Man’ — piinions

The Woman Who Wasn’t There is a documentary about Tania Head, a decidedly peculiar woman who for several years successfully posed as a 9/11 Twin Towers survivor, when in fact she had not even been in the country at the time of the terrorist attacks. That’s not a spoiler, by the way, or at least […]… Continue reading The Woman Who Wasn’t There — Philo on Movies

A Paris Review interview from 2012: Wallace Shawn is recognizable to most of the world as a character actor: he made a memorable debut in Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979) and, since then, has appeared in movies as diverse as The Bostonians and The Princess Bride and on the popular television series Gossip Girl. He has… Continue reading Wallace Shawn, The Art of Theater — Later On

Abbie Riley BSc (Hons) Criminology The Pink Triangle, also referred to as the hidden holocaust, is when Nazi homosexual men were sent to concentration camps as prisoners (Grau and Shoppmann, 2012). Although since paragraph 175 in 1871 (German Criminal Code Strafgesetzbuch – StGB, 2020), it has been an offence for men to have sex with […]… Continue reading Punishment and Society: The Pink Triangle — Social Sciences Blog

SpongeBob SquarePants’s big news has sent Twitter into meltdown after Nickelodeon seemingly revealed the iconic cartoon character is gay to celebrate Pride Month in June. via Nickelodeon hints SpongeBob SquarePants is gay to celebrate LGBT Pride Month — nyob.news

George Takei, the pioneering Asian-American Star Trek actor and LGBTQ icon, says the tens of thousands marching all over the world over George Floyd’s death in police custody has inspired confidence in the next generation, The Global Times reported. And while the massive anti-racism protests show the US is “making progress” on diversity, he warned… Continue reading Star Trek star sees US protests in progressive light — Asia Times

The Polish President Andrzej Duda on Sunday asked international media to “stop distributing fake news” after extensive coverage of a campaign speech in which he compared what he called LGBT “ideology” to Soviet-era communist indoctrination. LGBT rights have become a hot-button issue ahead of a June 28 presidential election in Poland, with Duda arguing that… Continue reading Polish President asks international media to stop distributing fake news — CorporateDispatch.com

June is the month of pride for the LGBTQ+ community, but little do people know the origins of pride in the first place. Pride was created to oppose the shame and social stigma that came with coming out. It helped open minds and create a movement. Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist is known as the […]… Continue reading A Brief History of Pride Month — Sunderland Global Media