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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ALEXIS GREGORY’s FUTUREQUEER : hard to categorize but easy to find compelling
FUTUREQUEER ⚝⚝⚝ Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel The entire world is queer. No, it’s not Compton Street on a Friday night. It’s 2069 and Alexis Gregory is imagining a queer future, through the scattered shards of light from a disco ball, at the Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel. The light is not always precisely…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews “‘The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced A Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits”
Scala!!! Or to give it its full title ‘The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced A Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits’ pretty much does what it says on the tin, with the kind of love and reverence that you can only have if you were…
The Copla Musical : how a drag sensation, finds love… yet always struggles to merge her Spanish past with her American future.
The copla is a form of Spanish popular genre of risqué cabaret songs which had its heyday in the 1930s. The lyrics often feature marginalized characters, including prostitutes, sailors, escaped convicts, gypsies, and so on, and have themes based on the “illegitimacy of all relationships outside the recognized heterosexual marriage” (i.e., mistreated women,…
Ben Cohen the very best thing about the new Tv Series PATTERNS
When our Editor received screening links of PATTERNS a teenage gay TV drama series from Aurelia Pictures he commissioned one of the Queerguru team to review it. The very next day he returned the links saying that the programs were completely banal : both the script and the acting were so…
