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Category Archives: LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
TROLL AFFECTION!
How a genre and boundary bursting Swedish movie brought back to mind a certain LGBTQ friendly First Grade Opera Tune I just saw the movie “Border”, Sweden’s entry for this year’s Foreign Film Oscar, and let me say, right … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, The Teaching Artist
Tagged Academy Award, Affection, Border, Brooklyn Children's School, first grade, Foreign Film, make up, nomination, Opera, Oscar, Sweden, Troll, wizard
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BROOKLYN PRIDE
Park Slope Comes Out! Highlights from the June 9 Brooklyn Pride Street Fare and Parade We are Family – Sisters Sledge
GETTING KINKY WITH JAKE AND WAYNE
Ed and I originally saw “Kinky Boots” when it was still in previews. We had treated each other with reciprocal Broadway tickets for Xmas, because we had high hopes for a Harvey Fierstein / Cyndi Lauper musical collaboration. The performance … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Al Hirschfeld, Armistead Maupin, Boys Keep Swinging, Broadway, Bye Bye Birdie, Chita Rivera, Cyndi Lauper, Dick van Dyke, drag queen, Gesamtkunstwerk, Harvey Fierstein, House of David, Jake Shears, Kinky Boots, Lea DeLaria, LGBTQ, musical, Wayne Brady, Whose Line is it Anyway
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LGBT is Thrown Around All the Time, But Where is the “B”?
Notes from the “BiView: Bisexual Representation in Media Panel” at NewFest2017 October 21st I attended the panel discussion on Bisexuality in the Media, the first of its kind at a NewFest/Outfest film festival. Moderated by bisexual activist and journalist Eliel … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged 13, Alexandra Bolles, biphobia, biplus, bisexual, Bob's Burgers, Callie Torres, David J. Cork, Denarii Grace, Eliel Cruz, GLAAD, Grey's Anatomy, House, How To Get Away With Murder, Insecure, LGBT, LGBTQ, media, NewFest, Olivia Wilde, polyamory, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Queer, Sara Ramirez, Studio Responsibility Index, Taylor Behnke, The Bold Type, Wonder Woman
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ILLUMINATING LGBTQ LIVES – Documentaries at NewFest 2017
Features: 100 Men – My Wonderful West Berlin – A Womb of Their Own Shorts: Bayard and Me – Umbrella – DES!RE – The Son I Never Had – Resist – House of JXN “We have gay people. Hey, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged 100 Men, A Womb of their Own, Bayard & Me, Bayard and Me, Bayard Rustin, Dating My Mother, DES!RE, documentary, House of JXN, Jochen Hick, Kathy Najimy, LGBTQ, My Wonderful West Berlin, NewFest, Paul Oremland, Pidgeon Pagonis, pregnancy, The Son I Never Had, transgender, Umbrella, West Berlin
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, SAM, and then Play It Again
I took a Swoon Dive this weekend. I read André Aciman’s “Call Me By Your Name” while playing Sam Smith on endless shuffle. It was almost irresponsibly intoxicating. Say It First – Sam Smith I first heard about the Gay … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, Melodies Linger On
Tagged A Room with a View, André Aciman, Armie Hammer, bisexual, Burning, Call Me By Your Name, Community Bookstore, Gay, James Ivory, Lay Me Down, LGBTQ, Love Is A Losing Game, Luca Guadagnino, Lucy Honeychurch, Nirvana, Park Slope, Sam Smith, Say It First, Sundance, Timothée Chalomet
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QUEER NARRATIVES at the MOVIES
NewFest 2017 Feature Length Dramas: After Louie – God’s Own Country – Against the Law – My Son is Gay – Discreet – The City of the Future – Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Last year I saw only … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged 2017, After Louie, Against the Law, Alan Cumming, Alec Secareanu, Angela Robinson, Anthony Johnston, Bella Heathcote, Best International Narrative, bisexual, Brazil, Cinema, Claudio Marques, Daniel Mays, David Drake, Discreet, Everett Quinton, Francis Lee, God's Own Country, India, Johnny Mars, Josh O'Connor, Jury Award, Justin Vivian Bond, LGBT, LGBTQ, Luke Evans, Marilia Highes Guerreiro, movies, My Son is Gay, NewFest, Peter Wildblood, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Rebecca Hall, Richard Gadd, Tamil, The City of the Future, threesome, Travis Mathews, Vincent Gagliostro, Zachary Booth
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QUEER SHORTS – The Fab and the Furious
Highlights from “Boys Shorts”, “Beyond the Binary”, “Drawn This Way – Animated” & “Faith and Fury” film shorts programs at Newfest – New York’s LGBT Film Festival It probably plays to the stereotype of the typical NewFest attendee that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged Ama, Animation, Audience Award, Ballroom Scene, Beard, Ben Baur, Boys, Bryan Powers, Catherine Curtin, Dinner with Jeffrey, Dressed as Girl, Earthly Delights, Elegance Bratton, Eli Mak, Evan Dale Karg, Faith, festival, film, Fish Curry, Fishy, Gema, Half a Life, HBO, Hi It's Your Mother, Indonesia, John Hughes, Kendrick Prince, LGBT, LGBTQ, Manivald, Mrs. McCutcheon, NewFest, Noora, Paul Rudnick, Pria, Pussy, Queer, Reed Birney, Route 66, shorts, Something New, The Night Cleaner, Time is the Longest Distance, transgender, Walk For Me
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QUEER SHORTS – The Young and the Resistance
Highlights from “Young, Queer and Woke” and “The Queer Resistance” film shorts programs at Newfest – New York’s LGBT Film Festival Another fall in New York City. Another NewFest festival of LGBTQ films. Last year I stuffed a dozen festival films … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged Antiman, Cinema, Coppola, D'Onofrio, festival, film, Gavan Ramountar, Guyana, Him, Intersection, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Margo & May, Morgan Kahn Nichols, My Gay Sister, NewFest, Queer, Sariwala, short films, Thomas Rivera Montes, Truth and Dare, We Forgot to Break Up, Who I Am
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INVISIBLE BISEXUAL PRIVILEGE
I reposted links to my blog piece on “The Nearly Invisible Bisexual Male” on Facebook (and Twitter) for National Coming Out Day. Which led to the following exchange in the Facebook comment section which I think may serve as … Continue reading
AIDS Memorial, Greenwich Village, NYC
Breaths – The Flirtations Jesus to a Child – George Michael Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat Boy Blue – Cyndi Lauper
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Aids, Being Boring, Boy Bue, Breaths, Bronksi Beat, Bruce Springsteen, Chains of Love, Cyndi Lauper, Elton John, Erasure, George Michael, GMHC, Greenwich Village, Jenny Holzer, Jesus to a Child, John Grant, Joseph Sonnabend, LGBT, LGBTQ, memorial, Neil Young, New York City, Pet Shop Boys, Philadelphia, Return to Oz, Scissor Sisters, Smalltown Boy, Song of Myself, Streets of Philadelphia, TC and Honeybear, The Flirtations, The Last Song, Walt Whitman
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The Young Lovers’ Path to Speak Easy
Two Fawns in the Wood Dance into the Light Maybe it’s just a dream. Maybe it’s real. Maybe it doesn’t matter either way. For the shame and the betrayal are felt just as acutely. In the musical Speakeasy, an … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, adultery, Alice in Wonderland, Dance into the Light, Dream, Fawn, Fawn in the Wood, Gershwin, Jane Allison, John Allison, Lewis Carroll, magical realism, musical, Prohibition, Queer, same-sex, sexual identity, Speakeasy, Through the Looking Glass, Trial of the Tarts
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SPEAKEASY – The Irony of the Young Lovers’ Duets
Curious Colorful Night – It’s a Dream – Momentary Bliss Three lovers’ duets that are not what they seem to the ear Ah, young lovers’ duets. A hallmark of musicals, especially those of the 1920s and 1930s, and so of … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Curious Colorful Night, curiouser, drag ball, duet, ingenue, irony, It's a Dream, Jane Allison, John Allison, Lewis Carroll, lovers, magical realism, Momentary Bliss, musical, Queer, Roaring Twenties, Speakeasy, Subculture, Wonderland
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SPEAKEASY – Advice from a (Lesbian) Caterpillar
Two songs from “Speakeasy” explore two sides of a closeted 1920’s lesbian For many years I hoped to write a musical about the queer subculture of Roaring Twenties New York, but didn’t find my “in” until I came upon the … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, Notes in the News, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1800s, 19th Century, Alice in Wonderland, Caroline Chrysalides, Caterpillar, Female Friendships, flappers, Jane Allison, Jazz Age, lesbian, Lewis Carroll, LGBTQ, magical realism, musical, My Passion, operetta, Roaring Twenties, sexual revolution, Speakeasy
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