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Simply The Best : a tribute to TINA TURNER by Queerguru’s Music Editor Allison Ananis
As a young girl growing up in Nutbush Tennessee, Anna Mae Bullock liked to sing and recite movie dialogue to entertain her family – but by age 20 she had a new name— Tina Turner—and a blossoming music career with her partner, Ike. Tina embarked on her career in the late 1950s, while still…
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Queer artist and zombie, Martin O’Brien : Overture For The End (As Ashen Place)
Queer artist and zombie, Martin O’Brien, currently the artist-in-residence at London’s renowned Whitechapel Gallery, has a fabulous new performance there on 22nd July from 6-11pm. A spectacular exploration of death and immortality, for Overture For The End (As Ashen Place) O’Brien is joined by an auspicious cast of young queers and old queens including…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews GUYMART the musical about the evolution beyond the gay hookup apps
GUYMART ★★★★ KINGS HEAD THEATRE, LONDON Arriving on the high heels of Grindr the Opera’s reincarnation (https://queerguru.com/queergurus-andrew-hebden-enjoys-the-gay-guilty-pleasure-of-grindr-the-opera/ comes George Lacey’s GuyMart, a less symbolic and musically aspirational take on the gay dating game. However, GuyMart has a bigger heart and where it needs to be is much more capable of drawing a tear. GuyMart is…
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Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 @ The National Portrait Gallery. London
The Beatle (Sir) Paul McCartney played bass guitar in the most successful bands of all time but he also shared primary songwriting with John Lennon. That songwriting partnership with Lennon remains the most successful in history. He was also married to the late Linda McCartney who we believe he met when in the late 1960s,…
