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The 2026 Oscars ceremony has come to a close
The main triumphant was Paul Thomas Anderson's film "Battle for Battle" - the picture received six awards, including...
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“We have no gay people, no sex, and no war.” How Russian art is learning to survive in a “sterile” reality
Four years after the start of a full-scale war, the Russian art world has turned into a space of paradoxes. While at fairs...
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Pixar cut the first openly gay main character from the animated film *Elio*. Studio head Pete Docter (unconvincingly) explained why
In June 2025, Elio, an ambitious Pixar sci-fi cartoon about a boy who...
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"Not a Real Woman": How the Movie *The Silence of the Lambs* Still Hurts Trans People
"The Silence of the Lambs" is not just a cult thriller - it has long become a cultural phenomenon. But for a queer audience, he...
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Russia's Visible Gay Men: How Celebrities' Coming-Out Stories Have Changed the Country—From the Intellectual Elite to Sports and Politics
In Russia and the CIS countries, there were no "open" celebrities for a long time – not because of their absence,...
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Queer writers have come together to form the “Rainbow Pen” Shelter. They do not tolerate discrimination there and remove texts generated by neural networks.
Writers working with LGBT issues announced that they would unite into a common structure in order to stop "existing alone in different...
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"The Silence of the Lambs" 35 Years Later: The Film's Creators Have Acknowledged Errors in Their Portrayal of Transgender Identity
Three and a half decades after Hannibal Lecter and Clarissa Starling took the world by storm, the creators of...
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"Being an openly queer person today (in Germany) is dangerous": Kai Stenike on his film *Homeless* at the Berlinale
At the Berlin Film Festival, in the new "Perspectives" section, created by program director Trisha Tuttle to support debut works,...
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"The only part of a person that belongs to us is what we have changed in them."
For one of my tasks, I needed to study the story of Marlene Dietrich. I watched some black and white films...
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What was it like to be the first openly gay man in rock music? Roddy Bottum talked about coming out during the heavy metal era
Roddy Bottam, co-founder of the cult band Faith No More, as part of the promotion of his new memoir titled...
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5 Gay Movies for Valentine's Day — Choose One That Suits Your Taste
February 14 is a strange day. If you are in a couple, it seems to push you to bed on purpose. If...
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"Pillion" is hitting the big screen—a provocative gay romance starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling
One of the most discussed films of the last year, Pillion (translated as —...
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