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Movies with LGBTQ Themes

Movies with LGBTQ Themes

After completing a character analysis on a movie that had an LGBTQ theme…I started to wonder how many mainstream  movies have been released within this topic. I figured there would be quite a few considering my instructor for my class had listed around 15 movies that we could choose from for our paper. After looking at a list of movies that Advocate.com had provided, I noticed that I have seen several of these movies and/or some that I never even…

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“Here is Your Pink Slip, Sir”

“Here is Your Pink Slip, Sir”

Have you seen the movie, Philadelphia which stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, that came out in 1993? Philadelphia, was one of the first movies to address the AIDS epidemic, and won two Academy Awards. The story is set roughly in the year 1987, and is about Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) getting fired from his job after his employer found out that he was gay and had AIDS.  Mr. Beckett decides to sue for wrongful termination. As he calls different…

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Bringing back a blog posting from 2010.

Bringing back a blog posting from 2010.

Since I had to completely recreate my website due to an error between a database and WordPress, I lost all of the content that I had posted over the past 5 years. I was completely sick to my stomach when my husband told me that he wasn’t able to bring back the old website, and if he downloaded the newest version of WordPress I would lose everything. If nothing was done, then amyrschumaker.com would have no access to anyone (even…

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