Author: News Desk
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Gay Films Selected For BFI London Film Festival
After the success of last year’s LFF, with the UK premieres of British breakout success WEEKEND, Tribeca winner SHE MONKEYS and Cannes Queer Palme winner, BEAUTY, Peccadillo Pictures are proud to announce that we have two films officially selected for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which takes place from the 10th – 21st October.
These include the stunning KEEP THE LIGHTS ON from acclaimed director Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue) and this year’s official Cannes Un Certain Regard entry, OUR CHILDREN starring A PROPHET’s Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, with a blistering performance from Emilie Dequenne (Rosetta), who took home the Un Certain Regard Best Actress prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Both films will have theatrical releases in 2012 and 2013, respectively.
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The Big Gay 10K
PACE Health and London Friend have joined together to organize the Big Gay 10K and Village Fete.
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THEATRE: One Man 35 Characters
The MAC and award-winning theatre company Prime Cut Productions are preparing to tell the fascinating and compelling real-life story of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf in I Am My Own Wife, the newest theatre co-production at the MAC.
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Cher Shares On Twitter
The Tweeting has been going on for some time now and we’re itching to find out more about the forthcoming album from the legendary icon Cher.
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Lucy Spraggan Chart At Number 11
Despite the X Factor auditionee pulling her music from digital retailers “in preparation for some things coming up” Lucy has managed to bag herself a top 20 hit with her self-penned song ‘Last Night’.
Lucy performed the song in front of an audience of millions in last week’s X Factor episode.
Earlier in the week OfficialCharts.com reported that, based on Sunday and Monday sales figures, Last Night (Beer Fear) was the second most purchased song of the week. The first being X Factor-winning girl group Little Mix.
Lucy has also enjoyed a massive surge in her twitter followers have risen from around a 1000 followers to over 61,000 users.
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Little Mix At Number 1
Little Mix today storm to the top of the Official UK Singles Chart with ‘Wings’, becoming the fastest selling single of 2012 by a group.
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Will The Pope Be Appearing In Gay Porn?
GayStarNews is reporting that the Pope, Benedict XVI will appear in a forthcoming gay porn movie by Bel Ami.
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Two Openly Gay Paralympians
‘Sport doesn’t care who you are – Everyone can take part,’ is the message being offered by Samsung in their Paralympics video (linked below) which we completely agree with.
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Scott Mills To Release Autobiography
Scott Mills is one of Radio 1’s most loved DJs, having been at the station for over a decade.
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Rylan Clark Is Kissing You In X Factor
Rylan Clark, formerly of Signed By Katie Price, now of X Factor fame has bowled the judges with his personality, but left them a little unsure about his rendition of Des’ree’s Kissing You.
Rylan who was interviewed for TheGayUK last month has been reportedly working on music projects since he came 2nd in Katie Price’s Living TV show.
The audience and judges were also bowled over by singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan, who is a former winner of Live and Unsigned, the UK’s largest talent competition outside of The X Factor.