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Flaming Runways
McQueen Directed by Oded Raz Is there a type of person whose early departure from this mortal coil could have been predicted early on? The list of incandescent…More
Matchmaker to the (Randy) Stars
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Directed by Matt Tynauer This movie’s title might overstate the case, but it certainly covers a secret history of Hollywood, namely the…More
The Many Lines of Terrence McNally
Every Act of Life Directed by Jeff Kaufman More than any other major playwright, Terrence McNally has zeroed in on that tribe that we know so well, creating…More
Not Your Mother’s Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights with Emily Directed by Madeleine Olnek “Wild” is a relative term in this reenactment of a time when a glimpse of stocking was something shocking and…More
A Berliner in Jerusalem
The Cakemaker Directed by Ofir Raul Graizer This German-Israeli coproduction opens with a seduction. After buying his favorite cookies from Thomas, the “cakemaker” of the title, Oren,…More
Just What You’d Expect
It was only a matter of time: someone was bound to have the brilliant idea to create a straight mock-off of the gay flag. What one can’t help noticing…More
Video of an Exhibition
It’s been 6 months since Juan Bastos’s retrospective of his California portraits (November 4-18, 2017) and the profile of him in The Gay & Lesbian Review’s Nov-Dec issue. Above…More
Facebook’s Gaydar
The social media’s role in the Russian interference / collusion investigation was neatly clarified by the testimony of one Chris Wylie, a whistleblower who once worked for Cambridge Analytica.…More
Costa Rica’s Flirtation with Right-Wing Politics
COSTA RICA is widely praised as the longest-running democracy in the Latin America and has always been among the leading nations in the Economist’s Democracy Index. But earlier this year, our democracy was hit by a phenomenon that’s spreading around the world: the rise of extreme conservatism.
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Bringing up the Body
This article was originally posted on www.thegamesmenplay.com, Georgette Gouveia’s blog. It is the subject of the second episode of the well-written, haunting new art historical series, “Civilizations,” now airing on PBS;…More