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Queerguru’s. Jose Mayorgas reviews “CUT TO DAVID ” a Chinese-American transgender teen raised in a Jewish household in Boston
An invitation into the routine of an American family of three where respect prevails, and the youngest member is smoothly transitioning from female to male. This smart, sensitive documentary, written, produced, and directed by Sandy Jaffe, tells the story of her transgender son. Through video footage filmed since the child was a baby, viewers get…
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CLARITY HAYNES : Bodyology @ New Dimensions Gallery , NY
One positive reaction to some of The Orange Man’s bizarre rants/idiology is a new solo exhibition of paintings by Clarity Haynes at the New Dimensions Gallery in NY. The BODYOLOGY show centers around large-scale torso portraits of queer and trans artists in Haynes’ circles. Sitters include Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Alannah Farrell, Wells Chandler, Matteline DeVries-Dilling,…
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Queerguru reviews ‘MANHOOD’ or How To Be A Big Dick
Daniel Lombroso’s new documentary MANHOOD is billed as a film that explores the cosmetic penis enlargement industry and modern American masculinity. However, it wanders seemingly aimlessly at times, with a cast of very questionable characters so much so that we wanted to retitle it ‘How to Be a Dick’ in every sense of the word. …
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Jonathan Harvey imortalises the late great LILY SAVAGE for the stage : UNMISSABLE
In queer culture, the words icon and legend are too overused. Even Queerguru will have to agree with that claim. But not today; we won’t apologize for using both when we are talking about the late and great Paul O’Grady, aka Lily Savage. (i.e. Lilian Maeve Veronica Savage) He burst onto the London gay scene…
