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Review of Nelly & Nadine
By Cassandra Langer
Danish filmmaker Magnus Gertten’s documentary Nelly & Nadine tells the incredible story of two women who fell in love in Ravensbrück on Christmas Eve, 1944.
War Against the LGBTQ Community in Kenya
By Daniel Kipchumba
The onslaught of political attacks on the LGBTQ community in Kenya is taking a new turn, after a group of traditionalists climbed Mount Kenya, removed the LGBTQ flag, set it on fire at the foot of the Mountain, and threw the ashes to the river.
Review of Of An Age
By John Burbidge
While Of An Age doesn’t quite compare to Holding The Man and other Australian LGBTQ+ movies, it does have moments that draw you in and help you remember, “I’ve been there” or “I wish I‘d been there.”
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Gay Pride: Body, Mind, and Spirit
By Anne Ierardi
A year later, psychologist and grandmother Buffy Dunker spoke at Gay Pride from the same stage, exhorting us to leave the moth balls behind and come out. She wowed those of us in the closet that day. If she could come out at age seventy, I could do it too!
Pride and Acceptance in San Francisco
By Matthew Bamberg
San Francisco’s epidemic tidal wave began just a few short years after Dianne Feinstein heard gunshots in San Francisco’s City Hall, and then found Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk with a spatter of gunshot wounds that killed them both. It was time for my coming out.
Teaching History and Being Part of It
By Chay Lemoine
He asked, “what’s Stonewall?” and I realized that was a teaching moment.