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After 96 years Macys Thanksgiving Parade includes its very first LGBTQ Marching Band
Queerguru received a sad missive from one of our readers who was bummed about being dropped from participating in this years Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade after being a fixture of it for the past 10 years. He understood that the need to shrink the Parade because of the whole CoVID pandemic, but was still…
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Netflix launches “Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives”
If you are part of a queer household that schedules its whole week around all the Real Housewives bitch-screaming sessions on Bravo TV, then your life is just about to get even busier. Hot on the heels of the new Real Housewives of Salt Lake City that not only has THE WORST clothes ever…
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A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance : review by Jonathan Kemp
“Pakistani culture visits the crimes of the child on his parents. I would shame them more than myself. It would be them, not me, at the forefront of public scorn and ridicule”, writes Mohsin Zaidi in this powerful memoir, and to understand this is to understand the entire nature and timbre of his dilemma, and…
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The Christmas Set Up : a brand new queer rom-com on Lifetime TV
Lifetime TV is the latest US Cable TV Channel to launch its own original LGBTQ Holiday movie this season, a groundbreaking first for the channel Part of a growing trend of adapting their signature highly sentimental rom-com where everyone is guaranteed a happy-ever-after-ending. Helmed by openly gay Canadian filmmaker Pat Mills from a script…
