queertiques
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Matt Nadel talks about CASHING OUT and how the practice changed the landscape for AIDS patients in the Pandemic
At the height of the AIDS crisis in the US, thousands of people were dying from the ravages of the disease, and also in sheer poverty … (AZT was the most expensive drug in the world!). Little could have been done to stop their terminal diagnoses, but there was a way to alleviate their financial…
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Stunning documentary ‘ASSEMBLY’ A genre-bending journey into Black and queer futures that refuses to be boxed in, opens in NY
Part documentary, part multi-sensory performance, ASSEMBLY the film takes audiences behind the scenes of Rashaad Newsome’s groundbreaking installation at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, transforming a bastion of white military power into a vibrant celebration of queer joy, resistance, and possibility. Blending music, dance, projections, sculpture, holograms, and African fractal patterns, Assembly channels the energy…
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First preview of Netflix TV Series ‘BOOTS’ the story of young bullied closeted kid who joins the Marines (to be bullied again)
Its taken almost 10 years for Greg Cope White’s best-selling memoir The Pink Marine to be adapted into a Netflix series, but judging by the first trailer that has been released, it will be well worth the wait. Its a story—full of hilarity and heartbreak—of how a teenage boy who struggles with self-acceptance &…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Boy George and Culture Club, a step back in time to the crazy 1980s. Another great documentary by film-maker Alison Elwood.
The UK excelled in glossy pop music in the 1980s, and undoubtedly one of our most successful exports was Culture Club, the legendary four-piece London band fronted by the attention-grabbing singer Boy George (George O’Dowd). A new documentary by esteemed director Allison Elwood (check out her brilliant doc on The Go-Go’s), Boy George and Culture…
