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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,…
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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…
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The Drag Queens of Hamburger Mary took De Santis on in Court and WON
Queerguru wants to send its congratulations (and love) to Hamburger Mary’s in Florida sued DeSantis on May 23, saying that the law targeted the business’s First Amendment rights to free speech. In the lawsuit, the company said it had lost 20% of its reservations since announcing that minors could no longer dine at the restaurant…
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Celebrating PRIDE in the most unlikely places around the Globe
When it comes to PRIDE Month what excites the Queerguru Team more is not the well-oiled heavily sponsored events in metropolitan cities like New York, London, or Berlin. It’s those smaller cities, that are more remote and where sometimes people quite rightly think they may be the ‘only gay in the village’ that hold Pride…
