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This Same Sex Couple are to compete in the next series of TV’s STRICTLY COME DANCING
The UK TV’s compulsive viewing show Strictly Come Dancing is coming back for Season 21 and will feature yet another same-sex pair in the series: actor Layton Williams and pro dancer Nikita Kuzmin. Williams is best known for performing in West End theatre productions of Billy Elliot, Hairspray, Rent, and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. He also starred in…
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QUEERGURU’s Top Ten Picks of MUST SEE MOVIES @ CHICAGO REELING LGBTQ+ Film Fest
Reeling: Chicago’s LGBTQ+ International Film Festival is the second longest-running film festival of its kind, and has always been one of Queerguru’s favorites. In this groundbreaking 41st Edition, the programmers have really gone that extra mile with one of its most diverse and adventurous schedules that seem to run the whole queer spectrum. Its…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews The Hottest Summer (L’ Estate piu Calda)
A fiction set in Sicily in a Roman Catholic context. During record-breaking hot summer days, charismatic and handsome soon-to-be-priest deacon Don Nicola (Gianmarco Saurino) visits the small villa and catches the eye and interest of volunteers at the church camp and close friends Valentina (Alice Angelica) and Lucia (Nicole Damiani). Don Nicola´s allure is like…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews REBECCA the musical, a tale of cheating, blackmail, murder and obsession.
REBECCA ✯✯✯ CHARING CROSS THEATRE, LONDON Written in 1938 the gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier was quickly turned into a film. And that film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock went on to become Best Picture at the Oscars. The source material has enormous potential, but it was a huge challenge that Michael…
