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The All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) : Queerguru’s Top Picks
Now about to open its 32nd Edition The All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) in Austin, Texas has over the years become the best LGBTQ FIlm Fest in the Southwest. With it’s very diverse programming that covers all parts of the spectrum it offers the best in contemporary queer films, and with…
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London’s leather & fetish BACKSTREET BAR is saved to live another day
It’ a very big round of applause for Tower Hamlets city Council in the East End of London who turned down an Application to build a new 12 storey block of 46 apartments as it was on the site of The Backstreet Bar the UK’s last remaining strict leather and rubber fetish gay club.…
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Jonathan Kemp reviews Megan Volpert ‘glorious mishmash’ memoir BOSS BROAD
Volpert describes herself as “a theory junkie who cannot resist rock ‘n’ roll”, which, as a fan of both theory and music, drew me immediately. She is also a high school English teacher and political activist, and her latest book demonstrates amply all the rich facets of her life and interests. Boss Broad is…
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Jonathan Kemp reviews ‘the consummate storytelling’ of Stones in London Kings Head Theatre
THE STONES ☆☆☆☆ KINGS HEAD THEATRE Writer/director Kit Brookman describes his latest offering as “a sort of contemporary gothic horror story” and there are certainly shades of Robert Aickman, Shirley Jackson and Henry James’ ‘Turn of the Screw’ in The Stones. A dissatisfied school teacher, Nick (LUKE MULLINS) meets up with an old school…
