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Aviva : a love story with dual personalities
As they announce the new program for this year’s SXSW Festival we take a look back at one of our favorite movies from last years Fest that is now streaming on several major platforms. Aviva from Israeli-American Boaz Yakin is a very unconventional film about an equally unconventional love story. Starting with a woman sitting…
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Elska the queer photozine revists the boys of Lisbon
Usually Elska the leading queer photozine spends most of its year visiting cities around the world to check out some of the gay boys who live there. However the Covid 19 pandemic changed all of the plans of Elska’s Editor In Chief Liam Campbell. So he decided if couldn’t travel the globe right, he…
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Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet streams in US for the 1st time
Tony and Oliver Award winner director/choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in ‘The Verona Institute’ and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our…
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Queerguru’s Curated Curios ……. and News 2/9
Historian Hugh Ryan (author of When Brooklyn Was Queer) gets his first book review published in the NY Times. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out a memoir by Jeremy Atherton Lin, is a toast for the gay bars that shaped queer identity, both personal and collective. Full Review …
