Offerings with LGBTQ themes have to play a high wire act; balancing between sensationalism on one side, and being sensitive and real on the other. These two do a fine job in portraying these themes, while entertaining, and being enlightening.
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Top 10 Horrific Foods The Victorians Ate
It has been said that “the past is a foreign country”. When we consider some of the dietary proclivities of the 19th century, however, the past starts to seem more like an alien planet. In this list we’ll explore the sad, the bad and the vomit-inducingly vile foods the Victorians used to eat.
If we get beyond the cringing “ickfactor” of some of these quintessentially Victorian dishes (fear not, we will certainly concentrate on that too – there are plenty of entries that will make your modern palette want to curl up and die), we also find a fascinating relationship with food in the 19th century. At the intersection between nutrition and culture, we can observe the clash between the old world and the modern. This is certainly evident in some of the stranger tendencies and dishes of the age.
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A young woman with a plan to propose to her girlfriend while at her family s annual holiday party discovers her partner hasn t yet come out to her conservative parents.
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If you love romantic comedies and watching two women in love (like me), you ll know that there aren t many movies with both of those characteristics. You either have two straight people falling in love (somewhat hilariously) – one of the most recent examples being
Holidate with Emma Roberts – or as evidenced by the last few years of cinematic releases, you get two women in love and living an altogether miserable life. One of the most recent and famous examples of this:
All the new movies and early theater releases you can watch at home right now
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Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you re staying at home to limit potential risks, or just saving a few bucks by watching from the couch, we ve organized a huge list with many of the newly added films and some upcoming titles.
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Synopsis: A young woman (Maya Hawke) thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger (Andrew Garfield) – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.