At L’Etrange Festival, Steven Arnold, the gay angel of surrealist cinema

“Luminous Procuress” (1971), by Steven Arnold. INGEBORG GERDES A dream of cinema is urgently to be discovered at L’Etrange Festival, whose 28e edition ends on Sunday, September 18, at the Forum des images, in Paris. The American Steven Arnold (1943-1994) will have gone through all the arts, photography, cinema, painting, sculpture, scenography, starting with cross-dressing,…

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why are gay and bisexual men more affected?

On the left, “monkeypox” cells observed under an electron microscope. PA Monkeypox (“monkeypox” in English) has not caused any deaths in Europe, but the disease is progressing. With nearly 17,000 cases worldwide, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus raised the highest level of monkeypox alert on July 23. Public Health France (SPF)…

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Slovenia legalizes gay marriage and adoption

During Ljubljana Gay Pride, June 17, 2017. JURE MAKOVEC / AFP Once again, small Slovenia is showing a rare progressivism within the “ex-Eastern countries”. Following a historic decision taken on Friday July 8 by the Constitutional Court of this Balkan country with just over 2 million inhabitants, Slovenian homosexuals are the first in the entire…

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Only a gay man can play a gay man

He received an Oscar for it, and today he distances himself from the role he played in the hit film “Philadelphia” in 1993. Only a gay man can play a gay man, says Tom Hanks. “One of the reasons why people weren’t afraid of the film was that I played a gay man”: Tom Hanks…

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