Tag: LGBT community
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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Everybody in the Place
Not sure how long this will be up, but this is a great documentary on youth culture and the rave scene by artist Jeremy Deller. It’s not your usual documentary either, just showing some dancing people in an hanger and then clips of angry news reports – Jeremy is filmed doing a talk to a…
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Madonna Has A Kiki – drag queen version
OMFG I can tick off one of my bucketlist and die happy now, cos a drag queen had synched one of my mashups. A proper working queen, dollars and all. I missed this, I knew my Madonna Has A Kiki mashup has legs, but not amazing legs LIKE THAT…thank you Morgan McMichaels and crew, love…
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Ezra Furman – Ordinary Life
Really liking Ezra Furman’s Ordinary Life, even though 6Music is playing it like crazy it’s actually a welcome imposition, because as teh kids say, it #GMH. And he’s gender fluid according to Wikipedia. Queer family? Yay! I suspect Jeffrey Lewis might be bemused though, it is a wee bit similar to him. I thought it…
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BUTCH
I love these portraits by Meg Allen from a series called BUTCH, exploring female masculinity and those “who relate to and claim the term BUTCH”. Really wonderful, and challenging the usual notions of gender and beauty since it includes those who are “bull-daggers, dykes, manly women and female husbands”, “baby butches, young studs, gender queers,…
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Shame in the East
Well for the next couple of months it’s Pride season, traditionally June because of Stonewall but London Pride is in July and Brighton is in August. Prides in this country are fun mostly apolitical affairs (I’ve commented on that in the podcast before now). But spare a thought for those in countries where it’s still…