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As Happy as Possible
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I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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Axis: Bold as Love
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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Illness as Metaphor
Carries a strong pull into books through Susan Sontag and identity.
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As Tears Go By
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Queer as Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
Happy Valley
2010s
Happy Valley is a 2014 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by Sally Wainwright. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Books · Strong bridge
Bold as Love
2001 novel by Gwyneth Jones
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Music · Strong bridge
Axis: Bold as Love
1960s
Hendrix's second album. Little Wing and the marriage of blues, psychedelia, and studio craft.
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As Tears Go By
1980s
Gang loyalty, bruised romance, and city-night momentum collide in an early Wong Kar-wai feature.
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Essays 1970s
Illness as Metaphor
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...
Television 1990s
Queer as Folk
Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially running for eight episodes, a two-part follow up was shown in 2000. It was written by Russell T Davies and produced by Red Production Company for Channel 4.
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Illness as Metaphor
1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag
Music 1990s
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is the eighth studio album by the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on April 22, 1997, by Matador Records. It was produced by Roger Moutenot and recorded at House of David in Nashville, Tennessee. The album expands the guitar-based pop of its predecessor Electr-O-Pura...
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Film 2010s
Happy as Lazzaro
A saintly peasant boy transcends time. Italian fable about innocence and exploitation.

Books
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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