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Shoga in the News

Autostraddle

June 14, 2023 - LGBTQ+ Documentaries To Watch This Pride Month That Aren’t the Most Obvious Ones

Daily Kos

March 5, 2023 - Black Music Sunday: Meet Ma Rainey, the Mother of the Blues

Advocate

October 28, 2022 - 32 LGBTQ+ Documentaries to Watch for LGBTQ+ History Month

September 21, 2021 - ‘Smoke, Lilies & Jade:' Queer Harlem Renaissance Short To Make Atlanta Debut At Out On Film

The Reckoning

Intomore.com

September 21, 2021 - Quincy and Deondray Gossfield Celebrate Queer Black History in “Smoke, Lillies and Jade”

The Hollywood Times

August 14, 2021- SMOKE, LILIES AND JADE: Poetry & Male Love in the Harlem Renaissance

We Make Movies

March 16, 2021 - POV: Hobbyist To Award-Winning Filmmaker

Metrosource

September 30, 2020 - Passion Delayed, Justice Fulfilled: Watch ‘Congo Cabaret’

Cool Hunting

June 8, 2020 - Shoga Films’ “Queer Harlem Renaissance: A Prospectus” Documentary

The Spectrum Lounge Podcast

May 11, 2020 - Khalil Sullivan - Queer Harlem Renaissance Project

XTRA Magazine

April 17, 2020 - The Harlem Renaissance was queer AF. Here’s proof.

The Root

March 26, 2020 - Queer Harlem Renaissance Spotlights Claude McKay and the Unsung LGBTQ Community in Congo Cabaret

Colorlines

March 3, 2020 - WATCH: A Sampling From the ‘Queer Harlem Renaissance’

Shadow and Act / Blavity

February 27, 2020 - 'Queer Harlem Renaissance': Doc Series Highlights LGBTQ+ Community Of Harlem Renaissance

Brothaspeak Podcast

September 2, 2018 - Singing the blues loud & queer. Ep. 76

Autostraddle

August 30, 2018 - 13 Queer Films From Kanopy You Can Stream With Your Library Card For Free

History is Gay Podcast

June 11, 2018 - Episode 0.2: The Strange Journey of Dr. Philipson

KDSD San Diego

June 2018 - Jazz 88.3 Interview with Robert Philipson

WRTI

November 8, 2017 - At The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival: Exploring the Subtext of the Jazz Standard "Body and Soul"

KTLA 5 News

March 9, 2018 - "Congo Cabaret' on KTLA 5 News at 3pm 3/9

NPR / WABE

January 30, 2017 - Film Explores Relationship Between Jewish And Black Music

Advocate

March 16, 2017 - Art Doc of the Week | T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

Mandatory.com

September 1, 2015 - Art Doc of the Week | T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

Ms. Magazine

July 18, 2013 - Singing the Lesbian Blues in 1920s Harlem

Collectors Weekly

July 9, 2013 - Singing the Lesbian Blues in 1920s Harlem

Daily Mail

July 11, 2012 - The lesbian blues singers of 1920s Harlem: How speakeasies and underground jazz bars became a home-from-home for New York's 'sexual deviants'

JBSpins.com

November 21, 2012 - ADIFF ’12: T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness

Amos Lassen

May 17, 2011 - “Very Good-Looking Seeks Same: Gay Profiles in Search of Love”, Poems by Robert Philipson– Reading the Ads for Fun (and Profit)

San Francisco Chronicle

May 20, 2010 - The San Francisco Chronicle profiles "Very Good Looking Seeks Same"

Jewish Weekly

June 29, 2001 - Bay Area Jewish weekly article on "The Identity Question"

SHOGA FILMS is a non-profit production and education company. We create multimedia works around race and sexuality that are intended to raise awareness and foster critical discussion.

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