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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘JOHN OF JOHN’ the 3rd novel from queer Booker Prize Winner DOUGLAS STUART
If Douglas Stuart’s first two novels, Shuggy Bain and Young Mungo, were black and white studies of an unrelentingly bleak gay adolescence in Glasgow, the Scottish – American’s author’s third book, John of John, places his young queer protagonist on the island of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, where the harshness of life…
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Queerguru’s Scotland Contributing Editor Robert Malcolm reviews Richard Gadd’s new TV series ‘HALF MAN ‘
I have to admit that I approached Richard Gadd’s new BBC and HBO series, Half Man, with some reservations. The violent working-class Scotsman is a trope that is too familiar and reinforces a national stereotype that the country can well do without. I was also concerned that this tale is told by Gadd, a middle-class…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews JEEZUS : a queer (and very camp) Latin musical @ New Diorama Theatre, London
Last summer Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviewed some of the queer events at the Edinburgh Festival. One show he raved about was “Jeezus!” The hit show is having a second coming and will be transferring for a longer run at the award-winning New Diorama Theatre in the heart of London later this month, from 21 April…
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To mark the forthcoming 10th Anniversary of the ‘PULSE MASSACRE’ Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews GAYS AGAINST GUNS
Who are Gays Against Guns? Set up in the aftermath of the 2016 Pulse shootings in Orlando, when 49 queer nightclubbers were slaughtered, GAG has become a prominent organisation in the struggle to introduce stricter gun control laws in the United States. Young LGBTQ+ people see gay clubs as sanctuaries and the bloody attack at…
