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Rising Country Music Artists on Issues Like Gun Control, Gay Rights

Rising Country Music Artists on Issues Like Gun Control, Gay Rights | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Country music's rising leaders are giving voice to new thoughts on such social issues as gun control and gay rights.
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“Love Is Love: Ideas and Inspirations: The LGBTQ+ Wedding Book” Celebrating Same-Sex Marriages Across the Country

“Love Is Love: Ideas and Inspirations: The LGBTQ+ Wedding Book” Celebrating Same-Sex Marriages Across the Country | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

This groundbreaking, emotional, and inspiring book includes more than 200 color photographs of real-life same-sex celebrations from across the United States. It is filled with inspiring stories, ideas, and creativity from the passionate planners, photographers, wedding professionals, and, of course, couples who are redefining the traditional American wedding.

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The Incredible Story of 'Passio,' the Gay Porno Starring Jesus

The Incredible Story of 'Passio,' the Gay Porno Starring Jesus | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The 2007 film was billed as a "cockbuster jam-packed with unrepentant religious ecstasy."
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Seth Sikes: The Songs That Got Away at Feinstein’s/54 Below

Seth Sikes: The Songs That Got Away at Feinstein’s/54 Below | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Seth Sikes will return to Feinstein’s/54 Below in The Songs That Got Away, an all-new show singing Judy Garland songs he hasn’t yet performed in his previous tributes to the legend, plus some that …
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‘The Inheritance’ Review: Stephen Daldry Directs Matthew Lopez’s Play

‘The Inheritance’ Review: Stephen Daldry Directs Matthew Lopez’s Play | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
“The Inheritance" is a vast, imperfect and unweildy masterpiece that unpicks queer politics and neoliberal economics anew.
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Does Gay Hollywood Have Room for Queer Kids?

Does Gay Hollywood Have Room for Queer Kids? | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The unspoken rule of gay cinema and television: Masculine leads only.
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‘The Golden Girls’ and ‘Gilmore Girls’ Team to Develop Gay Senior Citizen Comedy ‘Silver Foxes’

‘The Golden Girls’ and ‘Gilmore Girls’ Team to Develop Gay Senior Citizen Comedy ‘Silver Foxes’ | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Super Deluxe has commissioned the comedy from "Roseanne" and "Gilmore Girls" collaborators Stan Zimmerman and James Berg.
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New Show "Lake Winfield" Dares to Tackle Queerness During the Era of Slavery in the Southern US

New Show "Lake Winfield" Dares to Tackle Queerness During the Era of Slavery in the Southern US | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

“We know what you must be thinking,” explains Jared Walker, creator of "Lake Winfield." “Please, not another slave narrative.” Bawn TV disagreed and took on "Lake Winfield," an ambitious, adventurous period piece set in 1860.

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With 'This Close,' Josh Feldman Puts Deaf, Gay Lives In The Spotlight

With 'This Close,' Josh Feldman Puts Deaf, Gay Lives In The Spotlight | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The actor and writer helps set a new milestone for intersectional representation on TV.
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Kacey Musgraves Dreams Of A Day When ‘We Have A Gay Country Music Icon’

Kacey Musgraves Dreams Of A Day When ‘We Have A Gay Country Music Icon’ | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

“If we had someone who could be that voice, a first-person account of that voice in our genre, I think it could be a really powerful thing.”

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Richard Skipper Celebrates Broadway and off-Broadway Firsts…and More!

Richard Skipper Celebrates Broadway and off-Broadway Firsts…and More! | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Featuring Lane Bradbury, who created the role of Dainty June in the original Broadway production of the classic show Gypsy starring Ethel Merman; Annie Hughes off-Broadway Closer Than Ever; Lauren Mufson Broadway and National Touring companies of Mamma Mia!; Marta Sanders Best Little Whorehouse In Texas Original Company; AND A MYSTERY GUEST!

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Black, Gay and Losing Faith - The New York Times

Black, Gay and Losing Faith - The New York Times | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
In Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel, “Speak No Evil,” a young man’s journey of self-discovery runs into opposition from his parents and their church.
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The Evolution of One of Fiction’s Gay Liberators

The Evolution of One of Fiction’s Gay Liberators | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Alan Hollinghurst, one of England’s most celebrated novelists, has changed with the times and found new ways to surprise.

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Bob Dylan Sings About Gay Love

Bob Dylan Sings About Gay Love | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Six music artists including Mr. Dylan, Kesha and St. Vincent rerecord pop songs with a same-sex twist.
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VIDEO: LGBT Short film Mar - an erotic thriller set in the beautiful coastal town of Peniche Portugal

When a couple decide to spend their summer vacation in a small town on the coast of Portugal, they had no idea that they would be faced with a dark mystery that would lead to seduction and betrayal. Mar is an erotic thriller set in the beautiful coastal town of Peniche Portugal. It’s main characters Xavier (Lourenço Seruya) and Eduardo (João Santos Silva) visit a childhood friend Cristóvão (Diogo Tavares) who carries a dark secret that only his mother (Sylvie Rocha) knows. Sexual tensions rise until the shocking secret is revealed but only after someone’s fate is sealed.

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Epstein and Friedman, whose docs influenced LGBT history, get SFFilm honor

Epstein and Friedman, whose docs influenced LGBT history, get SFFilm honor | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

For the past 30 years, filmmaking partners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have created some of the most dynamic and humane documentaries of our times. Their films have not only positively changed the trajectory of LGBT history, but also have helped influence later generations of documentarians from all walks of life, particularly in the realm of bringing narrative techniques to nonfiction work. Now they are being honored with the Georg

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Pride Films And Plays' HIS GREATNESS To Be Performed At International Dublin Gay Play Festival

Pride Films And Plays' HIS GREATNESS To Be Performed At International Dublin Gay Play Festival | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Pride Films and Plays' Chicago premiere production of Daniel MacIvor's HIS GREATNESS - inspired by a 'potentially true story' during the declining days of Tennessee Williams - will be performed at the 15th Annual International Dublin Gay Play Festival, to be held May 7-20, 2018 in Dublin, Ireland. The entire original cast of last fall's production will travel to Dublin and will perform the play from May 14 - 19, with two performances on May 19th. In MacIvor's play, a great American playwright, his trusted and loyal assistant, and a young Canadian street hustler find themselves together for two days in a hotel room in Vancouver as the playwright is about to premiere a new play that he hopes will reinvigorate his career. The ensuing battle for power, love and loyalty is frequently funny, engagingly dark and ultimately moving.  Danne W. Taylor will repeat his role as
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Off-Broadway Harvey Milk musical puts gay Jewish pride onstage

Off-Broadway Harvey Milk musical puts gay Jewish pride onstage | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In the Off-Broadway musical “A Letter to Harvey Milk,” the slain San Francisco supervisor and community leader becomes not just a symbol of gay liberation, but of Jewish pride as well. At a time when the issue of gender politics is part of the American cultural conversation, the play — originally produced in 2012 — seems to have found its moment once again. (It runs through June 30 at Manhattan’s Acorn Theater.)

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VIDEO: Richard Skipper Celebrates April 8th

Richard Skipper Celebrates Broadway Firsts at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
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Seeking A More Inclusive Church, Austen Hartke Advocates for Transgender Persons of Faith

Seeking A More Inclusive Church, Austen Hartke Advocates for Transgender Persons of Faith | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Austen Hartke Invites Honest, Scripture-based Conversation About Transgender Christians

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'Roseanne'’s Darlene Conner and the Queer Characters Who Hide in Plain Sight

'Roseanne'’s Darlene Conner and the Queer Characters Who Hide in Plain Sight | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Sara Gilbert's Darlene wasn't gay, but she became an icon to the LGBTQ community.

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Kushner's 'Angels in America' goes from London to Broadway. But where's the power of transformation?

Kushner's 'Angels in America' goes from London to Broadway. But where's the power of transformation? | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Broadway review of “Angels in America Parts 1 & 2” from London’s National Theatre, starring Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield.

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A Gay Teen Romance, Sealed With A Peck: 'Love, Simon' : Monkey See

A Gay Teen Romance, Sealed With A Peck: 'Love, Simon' : Monkey See | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Come for the rom-com elements, familiar and dutiful though they are. Stay for the film's sensitive, specific and closely observed coming-out storyline, which feels new — and important.

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Daniel Mallory Ortberg on Transitioning and His New Book

Daniel Mallory Ortberg on Transitioning and His New Book | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The beloved internet writer talks to Heather Havrilesky about his new identity.

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Breaking Glass Pictures Nabs U.S. Rights to ‘My Big Gay Italian Wedding’

Breaking Glass Pictures Nabs U.S. Rights to ‘My Big Gay Italian Wedding’ | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Italy’s True Colours has closed deals following the European Film Market on a slew of titles, including comedy “My Big Gay Italian Wedding,” which is currently performing well at the Italian box office and will be released in the U.S. by Breaking Glass Pictures. Breaking Glass, which is run by industry veterans Richard Wolff and Richard Ross, has also picked up Italian drama “Tainted Souls” from True Colours. North American rights to body-swa
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