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Shearing Pinx: ‘castrating cock rock’ since 2005

A backstage chat with Vancouver’s outspoken queer noise punks

February 28, 2015
Ender’s Game: Orson Scott Card versus the buggerlovers
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Ender’s Game: Orson Scott Card versus the buggerlovers

Filmmakers strip Card’s unacknowledged gay content from movie

November 1, 2013
Queercore legend Gary Floyd remembers his days with The Dicks
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Queercore legend Gary Floyd remembers his days with The Dicks

Chucking condoms and talking queer in 1980s Texas

February 21, 2013
VIFF 2010: LA Zombie
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VIFF 2010: LA Zombie

Gay porn a last bastion of radicalism

October 6, 2010
Confessions of a more-or-less straight guy
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Confessions of a more-or-less straight guy

Did that bank teller bristle because he assumed I was gay?

June 17, 2009
The eclecticism of Arthur Russell
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The eclecticism of Arthur Russell

Gay, Buddhist and a Midwesterner with a downtown New York farmboy sensibility

September 24, 2008
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Queer shoot-em-up promises gritty drama

But Bangkok Love Story delivers mostly cheese

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Sex guru Annie Sprinkle on art, love and cancer
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Sex guru Annie Sprinkle on art, love and cancer

Lead with the belly, live with the breasts

October 30, 2007
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‘Mutually exploitative’

Black White + Grey: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

September 25, 2007
Over-the-top black comedy
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Over-the-top black comedy

Suffering Man’s Charity disappoints

August 14, 2007
A horror film for gays, goths and geeks
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A horror film for gays, goths and geeks

Jamie Fessenden’s Sacrifice

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