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Panti Bliss : High Heels in Low Places
If you have never heard of Panti Bliss aka The Queen of Ireland aka A ‘Frigging’ National Treasure then you deserve to have your ‘gay card’ taken away In 2014, Panti landed herself in a legal scandal dubbed ‘Pantigate’. Her speech about homophobia blew everyone away , and has never been bettered since. It…
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From Russia With Love
Queerguru has learned From Vice Magazine, about “Here I Come” a brand new Russian web series aiming to spotlight stories of young queer adults in one of Europe’s most homophobic countries. Filmed in Moscow, the saddest aspect of this ground breaking project is that the people it is intended for……. the LGBTQ community in…
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The Coast is Queer : Queer literary Festival Feb 2021
At one point during the session Queers in the Library, there was a brief discussion of the concept of space itself, that the library can be as much a virtual zone as a material one, a space both physical and theoretical. It seemed to me to sum up the whole of the festival…
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Dame Maggie Smith and Kathleen Turner : Stories and maybe some Shade
Over 20 years ago (and pre Downton) Dame Maggie Smith was starring in Alan Bennett’s play The Lady in The Van in the Queens Theatre in London’s West End. She was nominated for a Best Actress Award at the Oliviers and then later she would reprise the role in the film adaptation. Meanwhile at the…
