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Hollywood Suite Slays All June With 2023 Pride Programming

Highlights include the broadcast premiere of Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls and a night of programming curated by Anthony Oliveira

Toronto. June 1, 2023 – Hollywood Suite is proud to celebrate a month of special programming showcasing decades of 2SLGBTQ+ cinema. Award-winning author, film programmer, and pop culture critic Anthony Oliveira has curated a night’s worth of queer movies that will air on Hollywood Suite on June 22. Anthony also appears in the fourth season of Hollywood Suite’s original docu-series, A Year In Film, and plays comic book store clerk Bret in Pride Month premiere Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls.

Currently at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, Julianna Notten’s feature film debut Erin’s Guide To Kissing Girls (2022) will have its Canadian broadcast premiere exclusively on Hollywood Suite on June 25 at 9pm ET. Featuring a young ensemble cast, Erin’s Guide To Kissing Girls is a positive, tender and fun coming-of-age story that will resonate with anyone who can relate to having a crush on the new kid.

In addition to Erin’s Guide To Kissing Girls and Anthony Oliveira’s curated watchlist, throughout June viewers will be treated to a programming slate that includes:

• In A Lonely Place (1950)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• Purple Noon (1960)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• I Like It Like That (1994)
• To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
• Bound (1996)
• The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
• Frida (2002)
• E.B.S. (2005)
• Kinky Boots (2005)
• I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
• The Kids Are All Right (2010)
• Albert Nobbs (2011)
• Beginners (2011)
• Carol (2015)
• Giant Little Ones (2018)
• Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
• Pain and Glory (2019)

Watch the following films selected by Anthony Oliveira on Thursday, June 22:

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• The Boys in The Band (1970)
• The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

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• Victor/Victoria (1982)
• Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
• The Lost Boys (1987)

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• Orlando (1992)
• Bound (1996)
• Happy Together (1997)

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• A Fantastic Woman (2017)
• God’s Own Country (2017)
• Pariah (2011)

For screening links and interview requests, contact Angie Power at angie@route504pr.com.

ABOUT HOLLYWOOD SUITE

Hollywood Suite owns and operates four exclusive HD channels featuring the iconic movies that defined the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s, plus essential Hollywood classics from the Golden Age, always uncut and commercial-free. With hundreds of movies every month on four HD channels and Hollywood Suite On Demand, Hollywood Suite provides unparalleled value to consumers.

Hollywood Suite is available to over 10 million households across Canada, exclusively through Canadian television service providers and Amazon Prime Video Channels. Visit hollywoodsuite.ca for more Information.

ABOUT ANTHONY OLIVEIRA

Anthony Oliveira is a National Magazine and GLAAD award-winning author, pop culture critic, and PhD living in Toronto. He is the film programmer for the Revue Cinema’s Dumpster Raccoon Cinema programme, and the host of the podcast The Devil’s Party, examining Christian poetry through a queer readership lens. His first novel, Dayspring, is forthcoming from Strange Light Press in 2023.

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For more information regarding Hollywood Suite, please contact:

Angie Power
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