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FRANKIE FEST – A QUEER ROCK FESTIVAL HONORING THE LEGACY OF FRANKIE REX
Today The FMs announce the first-ever Frankie Fest – an annual queer rock festival honoring the legacy of Frankie Rex – taking place on May 11 at Coney Island USA. Frankie was an up-and-coming trans-masc singer and one-half of the alternative duo The FMs, died in 1922 aged 37. The…
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Must See Theater : TAYLOR MAC starring in Sarah Ruhl’s ORLANDO at NY’s Signature Theater
Queerguru needs a very good reason to leave sunny Miami for a bitterly cold New York but here is an excellent one……Taylor Mac. The genius actor/performer/writer is a self-described “fool” and “collagist” who puts together forms and costumes to create a complex and sometimes contradictory look and sound. As he has resisted categorization by…
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“They Took Advantage Of A Young Boy” : the story of Olympic Champion John-Michael Lander
Not being a big Olympics fan I was totally unaware of American Award-Winning Swimmer John-Michael Lander. However it was not his sports achievements that brought him to Queerguru’s attention but the sexual abuse he suffered that started when he was 14 years old, and the fact that his own mother was complicit…
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Barry Keoghan’s star keeps rising as his latest film BIRD is screened at Cannes Film Festival
When this photograph landed in our intray today it made us think of Barry Keoghan. Again. If we were totally honest we would admit to the fact that this Irishman is not far from our thoughts. Often. The photo above is his latest film Andrea Arnold‘s highly-anticipated “Bird” which is just about to…
