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Nora Burns powerful DAVID’S FRIEND is brought to the big screen by Ebersole Hughes
Nora Burns’s powerful and passionate performance piece DAVID’s FRIEND the story of the best friend who died from AIDS has been filmed by The Ebersole Hughes Company and is being screened at Provincetown Film Society & Festival Co-starring Billy Hough & directed by Adrienne Truscott. QUEERGURU sat down to talk with Nora and the filmmakers on the eve…
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Perfume de Gardenias : a delicious black comedy about funerals
Whether this post-pandemic time is suitable for this rather wonderful black comedy that takes aim at the hypocrisy of funerals, seemed irrelevant. This deliciously funny satire is after all the work of Macha Colón, a character created by the artist Gisela Rosario Ramos and inspired by the iconic actor and drag queen Divine. In…
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Seth Sikes channels Judy Garland in PTown
For years cabaret singer Seth Sikes has been channeling Judy Garland. And her daughter Liza too who he dedicated a whole show at Feinstein’s/54 Below some time back. So now as he heads to perform in PTown this summer its natural he is bringing his passion for Ms Garland with him. This is after…
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Harvey Fierstein : the Queer Icon who never stops giving back to our Community
At this time of year seemingly everyone is waving their rainbow flags to very publically be seen to supporting Pride. However, others do it 24/7 throughout the whole year without the need for fanfares and trumpets blaring. One such person is four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein who has always been a role model for…
