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Month: March 2022

BFI Flare opens tonight with GIRL PICTURE
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BFI Flare opens tonight with GIRL PICTURE

BFI Flare, London’s LGBTQ+ film festival, opens tonight with the gorgeous Finnish coming-of-age tale GIRL PICTURE. It focuses on three young women in their late teens, finding their way around life, love, anger and joy. Mimmi and Rönkkö are best friends, looking for intimacy, sex and fun. When Emma, a top-level ice skater, enters the juice bar where they work, life changes for all of them. This is a joyous film including a heartfelt relationship between two of the young women, frank discussions of female desire (and trying to lead the young men they encounter to understand it), but also healthy doses of consent and an important, and all to rare, exploration of asexuality. Head to BFI Southbank tonight for this lovely opening film (with the more beguiling Finnish title Tytöt tytöt tyt...
Out and About! exhibition at Barbican, London
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Out and About! exhibition at Barbican, London

If you are in London over the next 10 days, head to Barbican for the free exhibition Out and About! Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute. This selection of objects shares 40 moments in London’s LGBTQ+ history to celebrate Barbican’s 40th birthday. Bishopsgate Institute collects and archives a wide range of artefacts to chart the lived experience of Londoners. This installation includes items of pride, protest, performance and art and is a moving testament to how much has been achieved, how much still remains to be done and the importance of sharing experiences and concerns across a community. With zines that you can sit and read, protest badges, banners and placards, and posters and photos, as well as some outfits and costumes, the exhibit is beautifully presented. Seein...
Road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 / San Marino / Achille Lauro / Stripper / Video Reaction
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Road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 / San Marino / Achille Lauro / Stripper / Video Reaction

On this road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, I'm reacting to  Achille Lauro’s song - Stripper - from San Marino Eurovision 2022. I’ve always loved Achille’s performances which have always been interesting, intelligent and catchy, but I am struggling - right now - to understand the song, the meaning behind, and the choice made by San Marino for Eurovision Song Contest 2022.  It does look to me as if Achille Lauro has put a series of words together, a series of famous sentences all in line to make them rhyme and sound nice… but still, even if the music is catchy (and not new to his style), I can’t seem to fall in love with this song.  Have your say, I’m super curious! Enjoy the video, and do share your thoughts with us! https://youtu.be/B6Xd-5Uh7q4 Follow us on https://twitte...
Road To Eurovision Song Contest 2022 / Malta / Emma Muscat /Out of Sight   Video Reaction
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Road To Eurovision Song Contest 2022 / Malta / Emma Muscat /Out of Sight Video Reaction

On this road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, I'm reacting to Emma Muscat’s song - Ou Of Sight - from MESC Malta 2022. WE can notice a very good consistency from Malta in sending to Eurovision Song Contest women with a powerful image, messages of empowerment and gifted with strong and pleasant voices that own the stage and the attention of the audience.  I do love Emma Muscat’s message of hope and empowerment that pushes us all to be the best version of our-selves and to not be afraid of those difficult moments we can face in our lives, but to face them with pride and courage because we are going to be stronger than before, better than before.  It is the kind of message that we all need right now, and will be always needing.  Enjoy the video, and do share your thoughts with us...
Eurovision Song Contest 2022 – Latvia – Citi Zēni “Eat Your Salad” – Video Reaction
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Eurovision Song Contest 2022 – Latvia – Citi Zēni “Eat Your Salad” – Video Reaction

On this road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, I'm reacting to Citi Zēni’s song - Eat Your Salad - from Latvia 2022. This year’s song from Latvia for Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is a funky, fun and sexy song with a very important couple of messages: salad is not the only thing on Citi Zēni’s menu, and we need to do more to save our Planet… because there is NO Planet B! A scream of pure straight-macho-sexyness…which we LIKE because it does not sound aggressive or offensive.  Do I think this song can make them win Eurovision Song Contest 2022? …Ehm….nope! But it undoubtedly is a very cool song! Enjoy the video, and do share your thoughts with us! https://youtu.be/pXULTOI75Fk Follow us on https://twitter.com/thegaylymirror IG -- https://instragram.com/raffadpc Facebook https:...
Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Australia – Video Reaction to Sheldon Riley – Not The Same –
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Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Australia – Video Reaction to Sheldon Riley – Not The Same –

On this road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, I'm reacting to @Sheldon Riley ’s song - Not The Same - from Australia Decides 2022. This year’s song from Australia for Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is a very intense, profound and touching song, teaching us the importance of self-acceptance and of being strong in a society that wants us all to fit in a square box.  It is a song that touched my heart from inside and in which I can see myself of a few years ago telling lies to me and my dear ones just to hide how much the world around me was hurting me.  On a “fun” side, the song does remind of other songs from the past of Eurovision, and has a very strong resemblance to “Husavik” from “Eurovision fire Saga”… check the video and tell me your opinion :-P Enjoy the video, and do shar...
Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Czech Republic   Video Reaction   We Are Domi : Lights Off
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Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Czech Republic Video Reaction We Are Domi : Lights Off

On this road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, I'm reacting to We Are Domi’s song - Lights Off- from ESCZ Czech Republic 2022. This year’s song from Czech Republic for Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is very catchy, powerful and the solo singer is able to own the scene with only her clear and strong voice. I do have some thoughts about their staging of the song, but I’m pretty sure - or at least I hope - they will come up with something good to sustain their good song at Eurovision in Turin this May 2022. Enjoy the video, and do share your thoughts with us! https://youtu.be/6WhFECD8-Bw Follow us on https://twitter.com/thegaylymirror IG -- https://instragram.com/raffadpc Facebook https://facebook.com/thegaylymirror Sing along with  We Are Domi  Lights Off I lost my soul, forg...
Eurovision Song Contest 2022 – Reaction to “I.M” by Michael Ben David – Israel
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Eurovision Song Contest 2022 – Reaction to “I.M” by Michael Ben David – Israel

On this road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, I'm reacting to Michael Ben David's song - I.M - from XFactor Israel 2022. To be honest, not great lyrics this year from israel, but those few words, and the way Michael Ben David sings them , do give a lot of meaning to his message: fierceness, pride and great stage presence.  Also this year Israel is setting a good competition for all the contestants of Eurovision Song Contest 2022.  Enjoy the video, and do share your thoughts with us! On this road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, I'm reacting to Michael Ben David's song - I.M - from XFactor Israel 2022. To be honest, not great lyrics this year from israel, but those few words, and the way Michael Ben David sings them , do give a lot of meaning to his message: fiercenes...
Eurovision Reaction – Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi
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Eurovision Reaction – Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi

On this road to Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, I'm reacting to Mahmood and Blanco's song - Brividi - from Festival Di Sanremo 2022.   The song is amazing and really gave me teary eyes - you can see it from the video - and I hope you liked it too. There are huge possibilities of Mahmood and Blanco winning the Festival and possibly representing Italy to Eurovision Song Contest. Enjoy the video, and tell me your thoughts about their show in Sanremo. https://youtu.be/zZjunMd4_VA BRIVIDI - LYRICS [Strofa 1: Mahmood] Ho sognato di volare con te Su una bici di diamanti Mi hai detto: “Sei cambiato Non vedo più la luce nei tuoi occhi” La tua paura cos’è? Un mare dove non tocchi mai Anche se il sesso non è La via di fuga dal fondo, dai Non scappare da qui, non lasciarmi ...
Film recommendation: Great Freedom
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Film recommendation: Great Freedom

Franz Rogowski is magnificent in this moving drama which spans 25 years of German post-war queer history. He plays Hans, a gay man who refuses to compromise his life, despite the horrors of Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code, which made homosexual acts between men a crime. The story slowly builds, moving between 1945, 1954 and 1969 (when the law was eased, although it was not repealed until 1994). The film opens with scenes of men cottaging in toilets, before we see Hans returned to a prison which he clearly knows well, weary but resigned to his fate, and soon in an obviously familiar solitary confinement cell. As the story moves between the decades, we see various of Hans’s lovers, both in and out of jail, but we also see his relationship with his first cell mate. Viktor (Georg ...
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