Pick of the Day: 25 March.

Pick of BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 25 March. Domestic Revolutions, a series of shorts. Hit So Hard, a documentary about Hole’s drummer Patty Schemel.

Pick of the Day: 24 March.

Pick of BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 24 March. Love Free or Die, a documentary about Bishop Gene Robinson. Vito, a documentary about activist and film historian Vito Russo.

Latest Petition about Alan Turing

There are two new petitions concerning Alan Turing: one to get his face on the £10 note, one to erect a plinth in Trafalgar Square.

“The latest petition to honour the memory of Alan Turing – the man who invented the modern computer and cracked the Enigma Machine in WWII – calls for his face to be featured on the reverse of the next £10 note.”

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Released March 26, 2012

Madonna’s 12th studio album is an innovative and great pop album.

“MDNA is, in parts, quite self-referential but Madonna has always had her tongue firmly in cheek.”

Video Technology and Queer Performance.

Ben Walters writes about the documentary This Is Not A Dream, which explores how changing video technology has given voice to queer performers.

“Ever since video arrived at the end of the ’70s, a strain of queer and alternative artists and performers has been interested in using the camera – the dominant disseminator of mainstream culture – for subversive ends.”

Tony Blair is back!

The Liberian president prepares to usher in anti-gay laws, and Tony Blair’s charity Africa Governance Initiative looks the other way.

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back into international waters, the devious fin of Tony Blair appears on the horizon, and his unique brand of opportunistic insincerity threatens to pull you under.”

LLGFF 2012.

The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 23 March 23 – April 1, 2012, is one of the most important events in the LGBT arts and culture calendar.

“As part of the LLGFF, the BFI is screening four key films from The Celluloid Closet: Queen Christina (1933), Morocco (1930), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), and Spartacus (1960). This is a great chance to see these classic films as they were meant to be seen: on the big screen.”

Sex Toys for all inmates!

Zimbabwe senator Sithembile Mlotshwa recommends sex toys in prison to prevent homosexuality and claims this is more important than feeding prisoners.

“Right now Mlotshwa is deeply troubled by homosexual behaviour in prisons, and she is determined to root it out, at any cost. After many a troubled night, no doubt, she has reached a conclusion: her solution is to furnish prisons with sex toys.”

Wallis Bird, Alp Haydar and Weekend

The second Polari Magazine podcast features interviews with Alp Haydar, Andrew Haigh, the director of Weekend, and Chris New, one of the film’s two main characters. With music by Wallis Bird.

Weekend

Polari talks to director Andrew Haigh, and actor Chris New, about Weekend.

“Because the story is about two people who are becoming very intimate with each other, it was important you feel the same way with them. So I always thought about it as almost like a foursome. It was me, Urszula who shot the film, and the two actors. We were having a relationship together.”