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...It makes for a rich melting pot of characters and genres, from a gay couple adopting a baby to a nun’s surreal ability to smell upcoming death....
...Bumbling hotel trainee Aaron (Ali Watt) falls in love with a mysterious, aria-warbling apparition that enlivens the corridors of his relentlessly beige workplace. He assumes he’s being haunted....
...A new documentary co-directed by the cinema’s former booker Jane Giles and then-teenage habitué Ali Catterall, Scala!!!, celebrates its legacy....
...Mohammed Ali, another MP, was equally trenchant. “On this one Democracy my foot! Jail them.”...
...The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955-1979) by Jon Savage (Faber)The story of the shift of gay culture from the margins to the mainstream and how this changed the nature of...
...Anthony Walgate, a 23-year-old gay man, is murdered. The initial police investigation is bungled, and his killer, Stephen Port goes on to kill again. And again. And again....
...He is also gay; his layered identity manifests in his multivalent art. He has overlaid quotes from pop songs and poetry on to traditional glass beadwork or painted geometric abstractions....
...One of the album’s dedicatees is a gay relative, now deceased, whom Beyoncé called Uncle Jonny....
...We have novelist Ali Smith and Monica Ali. We have therapist and friend of the podcast, Esther Perel....
...At the heart of Peaces are Otto (he with the pet mongoose) and Xavier, a gay couple who set off on what they call their “non-honeymoon honeymoon”....
...In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me,” said Muhammad Ali, who is captured looking eminently chic in a cream suit....
...Summer, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99, 400 pages The final volume in Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet channels all the stress and unease of 2020....
...Gay soldiers were accepted to an extent unimaginable in 2003, when the armed forces had only recently lifted their formal ban on homosexuality....
...But instead of Muhammad Ali, who was funny, beautiful and articulate, and instead of the long letters from Martin Luther King from prison, we get social media slogans.”...
...Viggo Mortensen’s Tony is a working-class Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx who lands a job working for Don “Doc” Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a jazz pianist....
...Meanwhile, thousands participated in a gay pride march in central Poland on Saturday, as LGBT rights emerge as a dividing issue ahead of an October election....
...Bo Burnham A teenaged Bo Burnham (born 1990) shot to fame on YouTube singing comedic songs such as “My Whole Family Thinks I’m Gay”....
...Two gay men, Kai Barry and William O’Connor, later emerged from the nightclub and began talking to Mr Stokes and Mr Hales....
...Asked by police why he had punched Mr Ali, Mr Stokes replied: “Because he was abusing my two friends for being gay.”...
...In the former, the British satirist of Ali G and Borat fame exhibits more than he exposes; it’s nauseating to hear politicians and civilians support arming infants, or take pride in their racism, but the...
...She too dreams, though: of Art’s art-loving real father, rather than the kindly gay sitcom star she wed for convenience....
...Foreign postings are often tough for gay expats, but managers can take steps to help. (FT)...
...There is the most famous example, showing Muhammad Ali, hands behind his back, anguished expression on his face, and half a dozen arrows sticking out of his muscular body, in the style of a Renaissance study...
...A bling-wearing dealer (Mahershala Ali) and his girlfriend half-adopt him....
...Winter , by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99/Pantheon, RRP$24.95 (Jan 2018) Smith continues to write close to real events in the second instalment of her inspired quartet of seasonal novels....
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