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Steve J Adams

The Politics of Identity

by Matthew Hays
May 3, 2021August 9, 2021
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Someone Like Me In 2015, the Vancouver-based filmmaking team of Steve Adams and Sean Horlor were looking for a queer-themed documentary subject. At that point, anti-immigrant and -refugee sentiments were being inflamed,

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