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Sav Rodgers talks about his debut movie CHASING CHASING AMY one of the very best Trans movies on 2023

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Chasing Chasing Amy is an interesting documentary that takes a deep dive into the complex legacy of Kevin Smith’s 1997 indie film Chasing Amy, its effect on queer people, and its life-saving impact on director Sav Rodgers. He was a young teenager in Kansas when Chasing Amy was released and connected with the film and watched it every day for months on end.

Filmed over a couple of years, his documentary analyses the film’s legacy, combining interviews with Kevin Smith, Joey Lauren Adams, and Guinevere Turner with archive footage, as well as documenting his own journey through the film’s production, which includes his transition from lesbian woman to trans man as well as his relationship with his girlfriend Riley. Rodgers’ passion for the film and his documentary is infectious – this rarely comes across in documentary filmmaking – and the result is that he gets a lot out of the generous content of his interviewees. Queerguru’s reviewer named it as one the very best Trans movies of 2023 and since its Tribeca Premiere it has continued to make waves. Today as it started its theatrical run the very same day it got really good reviews from both The New York Times and Roger Ebert (itself a major achievement for a small queer indie movie)

QUEERGURU caught up with Sav Rodgers to talk about all the noise his debut movie is making 

 

PS You can read QUEERGURU's review of the film HERE  Plus check where the film is screening HERE


Brit actor/writer Dan Ireland-Reeves brings his award winning (very steamy) semi-autobiographical drama SAUNA BOY to PTown

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The Brit award-winning queer writer/actor DAN IRELAND-REEVES mines his own (seemingly racy) life to create semi-autobiographical dramas that we think may be too raunchy to be true. On the eve of bringing his latest play SAUNA BOY to Provincetown (and yes the title says it all) he told QUEERGURU that it was all based on him working in a Sauna for a year : and this is his whole story. Sex and all. Although maybe edited a tad . The cherry on top of it all (if we dare say) is that Dan has a very infectious English sense of humor which Queerguru Ed added is an essential part of having sex. LOL

US Promoter Adam Weinstock (who may or may not have met Dan in a Sauna) is producing the Show for 3 nights at the Gifford House, Provincetown during Mates Leather Weekend on 10/04-10/06


 

 



Peter Parker talks about SOME MEN IN LONDON his compelling two volume anthology of queer history

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PETER PARKER is a queer British biographer, historian, journalist and editor with quite a prolific output that includes the definitive biography of Christopher Isherwood.

He has just completed a 6 year project of SOME MEN IN LONDON a two volume anthology of the history of the reality of gay men in London from 1939 right up to 1967. Parker’s book makes for such compelling reading as its not just about the celebrity and aristocratic gay men who lived at a time when homosexuality was illegal and been exposed as gay could ruin and even end lives,  but also those working class men who had survived two World Wars .

Prior to an Event sponsored by Gays The Word at The BRITISH LIBRARY with writer Neil Bartlett,  Parker sat down with QUEERGURU Editor to discuss, amongst other things, the importance of sharing the LGBTQ+ community’s history with millennials and other gay men who have never personally lived in a period when homosexuality was still illegal. Our history is what defines us and helps share who we are and who we can/will be.



Tim McArthur talks to Queerguru about his semi-biographical play SMALL TOWN BOY on the eve of its premiere in London’s Union Theatre

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Brit TIM McARTHUR is something of a modern renaissance man : when it comes to the theatre there is very little he hasn’t done . He has just finished a smash run this summer as Sister Mary Playtime in Provincetown, and is now back home in London rehearsing his new play SMALL TOWN BOY.  It’s plot is based on a remarkable true story which totally fascinated us.

It all happened one summer in New York just a couple of years ago when Tim was introduced to another Brit gay man who happened to have grown up in a small town in the North of England, just a few miles from Tim’s home town. When chatting further they discovered totally unknown to each other they had actually both dated the same man at the same time . Its the stuff that (gay) dreams are made so we HAD to know more so we tracked him down to the Union Theatre in London on the eve of the play’s premiere …..



Multi Award-Winning Theatre creator ANDREW KEATES talks about his new project QUEER THEATRE

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Andrew Keates is a multi-award-winning Theatre Director, Acting Coach and Artist who lives in London.

His latest project in QUEER THEATRE with a very simple mission:

To tell authentic LGBTQIA+ stories without shame.

To nurture LGBTQIA- theatre makers with pride, in the form of classes, specialist workshops, one night only events and social/networking functions.

To partner with individuals and organisations who will help us grow the visibility of queer stories in the mainstream as well as directly to the LGBTQIA+ community.

To one day occupy a permanent space and dedicate it to creating LGBTQIA+ theatre, events and entertainment. 

In this day and age when the LGBTQ@+ community are under political attacks and are finding it necessary having to fight to maintain our hard-won equal rights. its a joy to see Andrew’s new venture start to take off



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