Liberace film spotlights gay rights

The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover has dazzled at the Cannes film festival and threw the spotlight on gay rights at the movie industry’s largest annual gathering. Director Steven Soderbergh said he struggled five years ago to secure funding for Behind the Candelabra because some financiers thought the film would only appeal to a gay audience and, at a cost of US$25 million (NZ$30.6 million), would be a financial risk

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Pine admires Quinto’s coming out

Chris Pine has applauded his Star Trek co-star Zachary Quinto for the way he announced he was gay in 2011, insisting he knew all about the actor’s sexual preference when they started working together in the sci-fi franchise. Quinto came out in an interview with New York magazine after being deeply affected by the suicide of bisexual teenager Jamey Rodemeyer, and told the publication that “living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality”

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‘Not supporting gay marriage is bullying’

Betty DeGeneres, 82, is a gay rights campaigner and the mother of the world’s most famous lesbian, not necessarily in that order. Ellen DeGeneres has a TV audience of at least 4 million viewers per episode in the US alone and is in Australia to film segments for her show.

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Moves to bypass gay sex film ‘ban’

The producer of “banned” gay sex film I Want Your Love has defied the Australian censors, claiming the movie’s global release on Monday via web-based video-on-demand services represented a way “to bypass the gatekeepers” and render them irrelevant. Classification Australia’s refusal to grant the film exemption from classification – which would have allowed it to screen to adult audiences at three queer film festivals around the country – has drawn criticism from Hollywood actor James Franco and attracted worldwide media attention.

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Ricky Martin Says “The Show Must Go On”

Ricky Martin is furious about Mayor Bloomberg’s decision to shut down the NYC Marathon.   Thousands Up In Arms    Thousands are up in arms over Mayor Bloomberg’s decision to move forward with the NYC marathon this weekend in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — but NOT Ricky Martin!!!   The Show Must Go On   Ricky was […]

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To Men Have the Capacity to Be as Sexually Fluid as Women Are Perceived as Being?

    There is a new critically-acclaimed off-Broadway play, (the title too controversial for print) in which a gay man finds himself falling for a woman, thus causing him and his partner to question his orientatios.  Can a gay man who is sexually attracted to women still be gay? And what about straight men who get turned […]

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China’s Gay Community Fights Online Censorship

When the Beijing LGBT Center screened a prerecorded lecture on gay-themed movies last year, the venue was so packed that latecomers had to jostle for a spot on the windowsills of the rented classroom doubling as their makeshift theater. This year, however, a similar event attracted only a handful of people, leaving much of the same room empty.

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