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Women in Film LA Exposes Hollywood’s Gender Gap with a New campaign. : check out this video by Fred & Farid. Los Angeles
On the night of the Academy Awards, WIF (Women in Film), with support from Angela Bassett, Eva Longoria, Lake Bell, the Geena Davis Institute, and ReFrame, put a Spotlight on Hollywood’s Vast Gender Disparity Among Below-the-Line Talent. Founded in 1973 as Women In Film Los Angeles, WIF advocates for and advances the careers…
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Eddie/Suzy IZZARD surrealist star of stage and screen ….. and maybe Parliament next
It’s hard to pin a description on one of Queerguru’s favorite actor/stand-up comedian EDDIE IZZARD ….. a surrealist stage screen presence also known now as Suzy. We’ll go with the latest one where Izzard has described herself as “a lesbian trapped in a man’s body” Edde/Suzy leads a very packed professional life which is…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah previews THE COCOA BUTTER CLUB plus BOLD MELLON two fab queer events in East London
Queer artists/performers The Cocoa Butter Club and Bold Mellon Collective present two shows at London’s Bethnal Green Rich Mix arts space next week as part of Soul on Ice. This is the latest festival from Certain Blacks, the East London arts organization specializing in celebrating diversity. The program is named after the seminal 1968 book…
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The fabulous ALASKA THUNDERSTRUCK & LOLA LECROIX take us Behind The Pageant of DRAG QUEEN OF THE YEAR
Just when you thought that there are maybe one (or two……too many) drag queens on TV these days thanks to the ubiquitous Mr. Andre Charles (aka Ru Paul), we have some news. We had actually given up on them all and it’s not necessarily the volume that has turned the Queerguru Team off, but…
