At this midpoint on the calendar, 2024 is turning out to be one of the best years for docs of interest to LGBTQ audiences. Titles such as “Queen of the Deuce,” “The World According to Allee Willis,” “Linda Perry: Let It Die Here,” and even the Cyndi Lauper doc “Let The Canary Sing,” are all required viewing. Possibly best of all (so far), is director and co-writer Sam Shahid’s “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes” (Greenwich Entertainment).
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He's going to win. It's very apparent: much as you're trying, hard as you're running, as much as your lungs burn, he's ahead by two paces. You had a good start, but he's the better athlete. You know this now. He's gonna win this competition, and you're going to lose. But, as in the new book "The Other Olympians" by Michael Waters, there may be another outcome.
Unity. Acceptance. Music. Those are the goals for Being Black & Gay, a concert highlighting the Black voice in LGBTQ culture.
“Chestnut” (Utopia), possibly named for the street in Philadelphia’s ritzy Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, is the feature-length debut by writer/director Jac Cron. Like a queer version of mumblecore – call it mumblequeer – “Chestnut” is about the last days recent college grad Annie (Natalia Dyer of “Stranger Things” fame) spends in Philly before leaving for L.A. and her first post-grad job.
Local arts and cultural organizations are reeling after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis zeroed out more than $32 million in state grants approved by the Republican-controlled legislature in the state’s $116.5 billion fiscal year 2025 budget.
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