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Mysterious Ways : a groundbreaking New Zealand Pacific queer love story coming to our screens in 2024
To our (extensive) knowledge Mysterious Ways is the first New Zealand Pacific queer film we have ever seen. It’s an interracial love story of Peter, a vicar who wants a church wedding with his boyfriend Jason, who is Samoan. For Anglicans, this is not allowed, and homosexuality itself is still very taboo in Samoan…
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Make Me Gorgeous the fabulous and incredible true story of Kenneth “Mr. Madam“ Marlowe now Off Broadway
The larger-than-life Kenneth Marlowe has been described as one of the gayest and most openly homosexual personalities of the late 50s and early 60s. He went from a 1940s/1950’s drag performer to being a madam who then went to transition into Kate a trans woman and then married a man locked up in jail. …
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews “Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible is About to Happen’ at London’s Bush Theatre
Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible is About to Happen ✩✩✩ Bush Theatre, London Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible is About to Happen is a winkingly clever play, by Marcelo Dos Santos, about the nature and neediness of comedians. Slyly disguised as a one-man stand-up show delivered by the Comedian (Samuel Barnett) it’s…
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THE NEW LOOK an emotionally thrilling TV series of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries, including Coco Chanel, launched modern fashion after WW2
Smack in the middle of next season’s Paris Fashion Week in February 2024, Apple TV will be screening their highly anticipated brand new, 10-episode gripping historical drama series THE NEW LOOK. It’s inspired by true events in the 1940s when the leading French Fashion designers kickstarted their businesses after the end of WW2 It…
