Our Hotspots magazine is celebrating 38 years. It has been documenting the LGBTQ+ lifestyle and is the spirit of our HOTSPOTS Queer Entertainment THIS WEEK SPONSORED BY THE BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS. In the LGBTQ+ community we always make jokes about Size Matters. When it comes to Broward Center.. Size Does Matter. The Broward Center for the Performing Arts is the destination of choice for LGBTQ+ South Florida for spectacular entertainment in a large variety of performance venues. Broward Center ranks among the top ten most visited theaters in the world presenting more than 700 performances a year to more than 700,000 patrons. Broward Center is the home for LGBTQ+ entertainers, shows, broadway, national drag performance, LGBTQ+ choral events and so much more. And Broward Center supports one of the world’s largest gay communities of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County and all of South Florida. They support that LGBTQ+ community and our nonprofits unlike any theater in South Florida. We are excited to tell you about the 2023 season that The Broward Center for Performing Arts will bring to our LGBTQ+ community. Did you know that surveys show that the LGBTQ+ community participates in live theater performances 2 ½ times more often than our straight counterparts. And that’s why they are the sponsor of Hotspots Queer Entertainment This Week. Several of this year’s top Academy Award-nominated films have queer themes, and even more of them are queer-adjacent. There are even a few actual queer actors, writers, and musicians who are nominated! Everything Everywhere All At Once won 10 Oscars this year. Jamie Lee Curtis’ and Michelle Yeoh’s (YO’s) characters in the movie are queer in some multiverses, and Stephanie Hsu (SUE), who is queer in real life, is the first actor nominated for an Oscar for playing a queer role since Angelina Jolie for Girl, Interrupted. Everything Everywhere All At Once is banned in the Middle East and China due to its queer representation. Another movie collecting praise from across the world is The Whale. Brendan Fraser won the best actor for this film in which he is playing a gay character. This movie has made Brendan Fraser the sixth straight man to play a gay character and win the Oscar. Another winning moment for the LGBTQ+ community was when Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won the best directing award and in the acceptance speech, Scheinert said, “This one is dedicated to the mommies of the world, to our moms, specifically my mom and dad, thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was dressing in drag as a kid, which is a threat to nobody!” #funny #queer #oscar #dragqueen #whale #talk #show #funnyshow #gay #lesbian #laugh #sexy #drag #iho #its #happeningout #itshappeningout
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