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Signal Cinema LGBT film festival returns to NE England.

August 23, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Signal Cinema LGBT film festival returns to NE England.

A CINEMA programme celebrating LGBT films launches in Barrow next week. Signal Cinema returns on Thursday August 31, with a series of screenings and pop-up events taking place throughout the rest of the year. Signal Pride! opens with the Bafta-winning comedy Pride, starring Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton. This riotously funny and warm-hearted film tells the true story of the unlikely union between striking miners and gay activists in a Welsh mining town in 1984.

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Honolulu comes out to support the Rainbow Film Festival.

August 23, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Honolulu comes out to support the Rainbow Film Festival.

20 films that support the LGBT lifestyle ran at the 28th Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival in Honolulu. About 1,500 people attended this year’s event, which ran over nine days. Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell was one of the attendees. And Island News’ own Brenton Awa and Moanike’ala Nabarro emceed the red carpet party.

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First US screening for 1951 lesbian love story.

August 23, 2017 compassq Comments Off on First US screening for 1951 lesbian love story.

In 1931 in Germany, a whole lot of things that had just been permissible a few years before had become suddenly, unequivocally verboten. And you don’t need to be a genius to guess why. Germany was becoming, in 1931, the earliest iteration of what it would be in 1939 – a country repenting for what it saw as its sins of licentiousness by enforcing the strictest social laws and codes.

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La Cage aux Folles – a look back.

August 22, 2017 compassq Comments Off on La Cage aux Folles – a look back.

Digging into the archives, we unearth the original articles printed in the Playbills of yesteryear. The original Broadway production of Jerry Herman’s Tony Award-winning musical La Cage aux Folles opened on Broadway August 21, 1983. The production would go on to win six 1984 Tony Awards, including Best Score (Herman), Best Book (Harvey Fierstein), Best Direction (Laurents), and Best Musical. In the following interview, George Hearn and Gene Barry, who starred in the central roles of Albin (Zsa Zsa) and Georges—a middle-aged gay couple whose love story was the heart of this unconventional new musical—discuss the decision to take on the roles in an era when playing gay characters on stage was still a risky move.

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Trevor, aiming for Broadway, gets first look in Illinois.

August 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Trevor, aiming for Broadway, gets first look in Illinois.

Trevor, a musical based on the Oscar-winning 1994 short film of the same name, is now aiming for Broadway. Produced in association with U Rock Theatricals, the world premiere musical is currently playing a limited engagement at the Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois.

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Broadway comes to LGBT senior group in NYC.

August 19, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Broadway comes to LGBT senior group in NYC.

Sing For Your Seniors brought cast members of Broadway hit “War Paint” to perform for senior members of the LGBT community in SAGE’s midtown headquarters on August 10th. They sang numbers from their show and some of their favorite Broadway standards for their enthusiastic audience. “So many of these people grew up with Broadway being one of the few places that celebrated differences and diversity, and LGBT stories and people, so it has a special place in people’s hearts,” says Christian Appel, SAGE’s Women’s Program Coordinator.