I Heart Queers

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Don't you heart queers? And some of our most favorite queers are getting together to make a series of short 15-minute monologue films for the BBC called, you guessed it, Queers, to mark the 50th anniversary of the "Sexual Offenses Act of 1967," which "partially decriminalized sex between men," as Variety puts it. For more specifics on the law click here. But to think dirty thoughts about the actors they've lined up for this thing, stay put! MNPP faves pictured above Russell Tovey and Ben Whishaw will both participate...

... that's a picture of Ben in his segment, which is called "The Man on the Platform" and will be about a soldier returning from WWI. The series will, and I quote, "explore some of the most poignant, funny, tragic and riotous moments of British gay history and the personal rites of passage of British gay men through the last 100 years." Mkay. Among others the series will also star Alan Cumming and Kadiff Kirwan and Fionn Whitehead; Whitehead can also be seen in Christopher Nolan's upcoming film Dunkirk...