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In this smart, lovable gem, now rereleased, a trans woman and two drag queens kick up the dust in Australia’s outback

Terence Stamp had his finest hour with this movie, which incidentally allowed me to “get” Terence Stamp, while at the same wondering – as he deadpanned his role alongside Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce squeezing every last outrageous drop from theirs – whether Stamp completely “got” what was happening himself.

In 1994, writer-director Stephan Elliott created a pioneering Lgbt gem with this funny, smart and intensely lovable road-trip comedy – an anti-Crocodile Dundee. It’s about Tick (Weaving) and Adam (Pearce), Australian drag-queen short of cash who journey from Sydney to Alice Springs where Tick’s estranged straight wife, Marion (Sarah Chadwick), has got them a gig performing in a hotel lounge. This they do in a converted bus that they rename Priscilla and have to repaint, to cover the homophobic graffiti...

We Are Family Foundation (Waff) is proud to announce the 2019 Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leaders (GTLs), representing 14 countries on 6 continents.

Carefully selected and curated from hundreds of applicants, these 33 13–19 year-old teens are innovating technology and harnessing creativity to keep our water systems clean, rethink approaches to cancer research, put youth at the forefront of civic engagement, transform urban forestry industries, and use machine learning to tackle modern day crises, among other vital challenges. They are addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues across the spectrum.

Celebrating 11 years of the Three Dot Dash, Waff is honored to continue its partnership with Sap.

“I am inspired each year to meet and work with the Global Teen Leaders who join our family,” said Nile Rodgers, Founder & Chairman, We Are Family Foundation. “It’s one of the most important parts of my life. Just listening to their voices and their ideas...

Hollywood, the Beltway and gun reform activists – including the Parkland, Florida students who have taken an impressive lead on the topic – responded quickly to today’s shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas. The shooting left 10 dead, including nine students and a teacher. A 17-year-old suspect is in custody, along with a second person, possibly an accomplice.

“Prepare to watch the NRA boast about getting higher donations,” tweeted Parkland survivor Cameron Kasky. “Prepare to see students rise up and be called ‘civil terrorists’ and crisis actors. Prepare for the right-wing media to attack the survivors.”

Kasky’s schoolmate and fellow activist David Hogg wrote, “Get ready for two weeks of media coverage of politicians acting like they give a shit when in reality they just want to boost their approval ratings before midterms.”

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“We can do better than this,” tweeted Ellen DeGeneres. “We must do better than this.

We Are Family Foundation (Waff) is honored to welcome Parkland teens Ariana Ali, Sarah Chadwick, Jack Macleod and Morgan Williams at its 2018 Celebration Gala on Friday, April 27 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.

Waff’s Youth Ambassadors representing six countries will welcome these teens with a special presentation and a statement of solidarity.

In response to the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fl on February 14, 2018, each of the four Parkland teens joining the evening have responded with their own platforms for positive change: Jack Macleod, Co-Founder of Students For Change; Ariana Ali, Outreach, Students for Change; Sarah Chadwick, “March For Our Lives” Speaker; Morgan Williams, Co-Founder, #StoriesUntoldUS.

“As a teen, I was an activist in the sixties,” said Nile Rodgers, Founder, We Are Family Foundation. “Not since that time have we seen a movement led by youth that has had the type of national...