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‘Moonlight’ Named Best Picture Of 2016 By L.A. Film Critics
‘Moonlight’ Named Best Picture Of 2016 By L.A. Film Critics
The path of Moonlight has been a great one to watch. At first it was making the rounds in arthouse theaters, then some smaller venues in big cities, and then its momentum just kept carrying it along until it seemed to be getting buzz from just about everyone. Well, now we’re creeping into awards season, and that buzz has done its job: Moonlight was just named best picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
It’s been a better year for diversity in awards shows than years past; along with Moonlight‘s director Barry Jenkins, numerous other women and people of color won awards. That includes the makers of Certain Women, Toni Erdmann, and The Illinois Parables, all of which had female directors. And I am not Your Negro won best documentary, along with Your Name from Japan for best animated feature.
Related: 5 Reasons Moonlight Might Just Be The Best Movie Of The Year
The LA Film Critics Association awards will all be formally handed out in mid-January, though generally only other other film critics will be aware of them.
Hopefully when we get to the awards show that more people really tune into, Moonlight will have racked up even more attention. It’s really a lovely piece of work, from the performances to the challenging portrayal of masculinity to Janelle Monae’s cannot-look-away command of the screen.
‘Do Straight Guys Eat Bananas the Same Way As Gay Guys?’ – WATCH
‘Do Straight Guys Eat Bananas the Same Way As Gay Guys?’ – WATCH
Comedian Michael Henry’s latest viral-worthy video is a bit of a curve ball.
If you’re a fan of Henry’s sketches you know that they usually entail a gag — a monologue, some repartee, a scene even — about the divide between gay men and straight men in today’ culture. His latest video continues along that track but this time there are no jokes–at least not in the traditional sense.
“Do Straight Guys Eat Bananas The Same Was As Gay Guys” is like a video instillation you might see at a pretentious art gallery if said video and said gallery had a twisted gay sense of humor. It would make a funny replacement, for example, for the opening of Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals.
The narrative and the punchline, for this video are shaped by the video’s ending, which gives a definitive answer to the question in the title.
Watch below to find out what that answer is.
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‘Do Straight Guys Eat Bananas the Same Way As Gay Guys?’ – WATCH
HBO's “The Trans List” spotlights personal and powerful trans stories
HBO's “The Trans List” spotlights personal and powerful trans stories
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The Trans List is the latest in a series of documentaries by acclaimed photographer and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Like his previous films, which include The Black List, The Latino List, and The OUT List, The Trans List features a sincere, straightforward style of interviewing, giving a platform for people to share their life stories in their own voices.
From Bamby Salcedo (activist and founder of the TransLatin@ Coalition), to Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox, Shane Ortega (U.S. Army Staff Sergeant), Nicole Maines (advocate, actor, and student), Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (advocate and community leader), Kylar Broadus (civil rights attorney), Amos Mac (photographer), Caroline Cossey (model), and Alok Vaid-Menon (writer, poet, and performance artist), each shares their personal story in detail, describing in their own words their relationships with identity, family, career, struggle, and achievement.
Janet Mock, TV host, journalist, advocate, and author of The New York Times bestselling memoir Redefining Realness: A Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More, co-produced the film and interviews each of the documentary’s eleven cast members, intimately from behind-the-camera.
On why people should watch, Alok Vaid-Menon told GLAAD:
“In a media moment saturated by cisgender people telling transgender stories it feels really exciting and beautiful to have trans people telling our own stories.
What the film shows is that there is no “one” trans narrative. We are all extraordinarily different and have different ideas about what gender even is! This film really complicates the idea that there’s only one way to be trans. […] I hope people take away that there are as many trans narratives as there are trans people — that each of us is extraordinarily complex and unique. This film is bringing trans and gender non-conforming life to a wide audience so I hope that people will be confronted with ideas and narratives that they’ve never considered before.”
Coming soon: read more of GLAAD’s interviews with Alok, Amos Mac, and Bamby Salcedo about their experiences participating in the documentary.
The film’s journey into each person’s life are short, but the sophisticated nature of the interviews, guided by Mock, render each person’s life so sharply and specifically that their stories become relatable and universal.
The Trans List premieres December 5 at 8 pm ET on HBO.
Through February 2017, The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles is hosting IDENTITY: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders The List Portraits, a special exhibition where portraits of people from The Trans List and several additional trans people photographed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, may be seen alongside portraits of people featured in The Black List, The Latino List, The Women’s List, and The Out List.
The gallery is also inviting some of the subjects from the photos to give lectures in conjunction with the exhibit, and making them available to view online. Currently you can watch lectures by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Alok Vaid-Menon, and the director of GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program, Nick Adams. Upcoming will be lectures from Bamby Salcedo, Nicole Maines and her father, and Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst.
December 5, 2016
Issues:
www.glaad.org/blog/hbos-trans-list-spotlights-personal-and-powerful-trans-stories
Lucas Grindley Named Editor in Chief of The Advocate
Lucas Grindley Named Editor in Chief of The Advocate
It’s an expanded role for Grindley, who will continue as editorial director and senior vice president for Here Media.
www.advocate.com/media/2016/12/05/lucas-grindley-named-editor-chief-advocate
Gay Pride, Strasbourg 2016
Gay Pride, Strasbourg 2016
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Madonna Savages Donald Trump With Cover Of Britney Spears’ “Toxic”
Madonna Savages Donald Trump With Cover Of Britney Spears’ “Toxic”
Madonna put on one hell of a show at Art Basel in Miami on Friday, which included a cover of Britney Spears‘ song “Toxic,” which she used as a platform to rip into president-elect Donald Trump.
Unflattering images of Trump were projected behind her, such as one with his mouth as a urinal and one where his nose grows to the proportions of Pinocchio’s after telling a particularly big whopper – like, say, claiming millions of people voted illegally with no evidence to back it up.
Trump’s words were also flashed on the screen, along with animation featuring the pink elephants on parade from the film Dumbo. Some choice quotes include his promise to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it and his claim that if he weren’t Ivanka’s father he might be dating her.
Trump, pretending to be his own publicist, bragged in a call to a reporter during the early ’90s that Madonna had tried to date him.
Watch the video of her performance below, and decide on your own the veracity of his “publicist’s” claim.
Madonna raised $7.5 million to support the charity Raising Malawi during the show, auctioning off some of her personal art collection, as well as costumes and the wedding photo of she and Sean Penn.
Penn made an appearance on stage, handcuffing Madonna, who joked that it was the first time he wasn’t the one being arrested.
“?”Does this remind you of anything?…..And I’m still in love with you…” – #Madonna last night @ArtBasel Miami with Sean Penn (Dec-2-2016) ? #madonna #seanpenn #artbaselmiami #FaenaForum #madonnafans #madonnafamily #marriage #auction #americanicon #tearsofaclown #Repost from @madonnabible
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Oh yeah, and she also twerked with Ariana Grande.
#ArianaGrande and #Madonna break it down on stage out in #Miami at #ArtBasel! ? @BallerAlert @ArianaGrande @Madonna #WSHH
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This 3-Decade Time Lapse of the Earth Will Take Your Breath Away: WATCH
This 3-Decade Time Lapse of the Earth Will Take Your Breath Away: WATCH
Fire Island in 1984, 1992, and 2015
Google has released a stunning a new time-lapse video that uses satellite imagery to show the evolution of major destinations around the world over the last three decades.
The images show both how certain areas of the world have exploded in terms of development. They also show the devastating effect of climate change on our earth.
We can see, in these timelapse satellite videos, how the Earth is being torn apart by human acts. We can also see, in timelapse videos of Arctic ice, great glaciers melt before our eyes. Yet, are human beings capable of assimilating such global perspectives or is our consciousness tragically limited to a pre-space age, even pre-Copernican mentality? Are people only capable of acting on immediate, personal and local concerns, even though images from space can show us the bigger picture?
Watch, below.
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This 3-Decade Time Lapse of the Earth Will Take Your Breath Away: WATCH
Congressman Says Trump Will Repeal Federal Protections for LGBT Workers
Congressman Says Trump Will Repeal Federal Protections for LGBT Workers
Rep. Steve Russell said that the president-elect has offered “very good assurances” he will repeal Obama’s executive orders for LGBT federal contractors.
Thousands rally against same-sex marriage 2016 婚姻家庭 全民決定 萬人凱道靜坐
Thousands rally against same-sex marriage 2016 婚姻家庭 全民決定 萬人凱道靜坐
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Hundred thousands gathered Saturday on Ketagalan Boulevard to rally against the bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
Hundred thousands stage a sit-in against the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Taiwan
People gathered Saturday on Ketagalan Boulevard to chant “marriage and family up to the people; children’s education up to the parents,” attendees showed up to demand the right to be involved in the monumental process to potentially amend the Civil Code.
下一代幸福聯盟號召數萬支持者 12月3日走上凱達格蘭大道，提出「婚姻家庭，全民決定」和「子女教育，父母決定」口號！主張婚姻的定義是一男一女的結合，改變婚姻家庭定義必須由全民公投決定。若是將同性戀者納入民法規範，將因沒有夫妻父母稱謂以及家庭結構崩解，造成傳統人倫輩分的倫理架構崩壞，堅決反對同性戀納入民法規範，強調「尊重同性戀的存在，並考慮接受立專法保障他們權益。
1203北中南3場反同婚法案大遊行，統計超過10萬人走上街頭！下一代幸福聯盟（幸福盟）發起的北部場，到下午3點人潮已從凱道蔓延到景福門仁愛圓環，預計有7萬人參與。幸福盟家長代表曾獻瑩3日受訪時表示，「國際上對同婚婚姻制度也多訂定「專法」，可見並非就是歧視，我們要求暫緩《民法》同性婚姻法案，讓全民建立共識。」
Taipei, Taiwan.
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