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Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs
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I grew up in Ecuador, but never felt accepted there as a gay man. Ireland is where I call ‘home’ now
The Chelsea: bohos, bad behaviour and bed bugs
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