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Obama Endorses Marriage Equality

Obama Endorses Marriage Equality

BY PAUL SCHINDLER |  In a stunning turn of events, President Barack Obama endorsed marriage equality this afternoon, in a taped interview with…




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BY GARY M. KRAMER  |  While Gallic crime films have often involved existential gangster themes — think Melville’s “Le Samoraï” or Truffaut’s “Shoot the Piano Player” — the…

BY STEVE ERICKSON  |  Lebanese director Nadine Labaki showed a light touch, skill at directing a female ensemble, and some comic gifts in her debut film, “Caramel.” Those…

BY GARY M. KRAMER  |  A modestly made — and modestly affecting — comedy-drama about acceptance, “The Perfect Family” concerns Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner) vying for the “Catholic…

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Viva Hollande!

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL  |  Sunday, I squeezed into a Mexican Irish bar in the Village with a bunch of French Socialists to watch their presidential election results.…

Vargas Llosa: Against Hunting Gays In Latin America

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | In March, 24-year-old store clerk and gay activist Daniel Zamudio was attacked in a public park in Santiago, Chile, beaten intermittently for hours,…


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