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War Within
American/Palestinian singer/actor/filmmaker ZAHER SALEH’s deeply moving short film ‘The War Within’ tells a personal story of a gay Muslim man’s struggle to reconcile his sexuality with his faith, his longing for acceptance from his family and his journey to love and accept himself. The movie was released earlier this summer by We Are One+Together…
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Grace Jones Pulling Up To The Bumper
Filmmaker Sophie Fiennes (sister of actors Ralph and Joseph) has seemingly done the impossible and got the tempestuous 69 year old GRACE JONES to co-operate in making a documentary of her life. Fiennes spent 5 years with Jones in order to craft her documentary and told DEADLINE “This film began in a collaborative creative spirit,” she…
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Chatty Catties a candidate for The Most Bizarre Movie Ever
Every now again queerguru comes across a new candidate for ‘The Most Bizarre Movie Ever‘ that is so bad, it is actually good. Two years ago we came across Chatty Catties from LA based artist and writer Pablo Valencia that simply left us struggling for words. This story is of an aspiring filmmaker called Shelby…
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Gypsy Queen : an Unconventional Love Story
One of London’s leading Fringe Theatres ….. The Kings Head …. is marking the 50th Anniversary of the UK’s partial decriminalization with a series of plays under the banner QUEER 17. Their current production, hot from a very successful run at the Edinburgh Festival and clutching rave reviews is Rob Ward’s GYPSY QUEEN.…
