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#SaveProspectCottage : supporting the Campaign to save DEREK JARMEN’s Home
The late great Derek Jarman who died in 1994 aged just 52 was so much more than a queer auteur. This remarkable Brit was a gay rights activist stage designer, diarist, artist, author. and gardener. His enormous legacy is not just his ground-breaking films such as Sebastiane Jubilee The Tempest Caravaggio Edward II and Blue but…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ROSIE JONES and her search for sapphic sustenance
ROSIE JONES: BACKWARD ☆☆ ☆☆ Soho Theatre Rosie Jones is Britain’s 96th most powerful lesbian, according to one poll. Jones would enjoy this accolade much more if only she had met another 95 lesbians in her entire life. Treating this as a challenge to fulfill much of her act is devoted to her search…
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Dragnificent: “the mother of all transformation shows”
After a successful pilot show last year, TLC are launching a whole new series of Dragnificent! It’s kind of like Queer Eye but far more outrageous and colorful as the stars are all drag queens in what is being hailed as the “mother of all transformation shows” A quartet of drag queens will travel…
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From Catherine the Nobody to Catherine the Great
The Australian TV & Film writer Tony McNamara seems to be developing a passion for writing about Mad Monarchs. He co-wrote the screenplay of The Favourite with Olivia Colman picking up a Best Actress Oscar for playing crazy Queen Anne. McNamara was nominated for both an Oscar and Golden Golden Globe for his troubles. Now he…
