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The Secret of Me : a compelling doc of a raging medical expose of how an Intersex person was mistreated
Last week was Intersex Awareness Day, which marked the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in North America in 1996, and was created to raise awareness of human rights issues facing intersex people and promote understanding, respect, and inclusion for intersex people. To celebrate the occasion in Australia the City of Sydney…
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Writer Hugo Timbrell talks to Queerguru about his new queer thriller AN INSTINCT @ Old Red Lion Theatre, London
Queerguru tracked down writer Hugo Timbrell down to the Old Red Lion Pub Theatre, which has been in Islington, London, for OVER 400 YEARS, well, the Pub anyway, they added the theatre in 1979. It’s where Hugo’s new play AN INSTINCT will open in November. It is billed as a queer thriller about a cabin,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews 3670, a thought-provoking tale of a shy North Korean gay defector’s assimilation into Seoul’s vibrant queer life.
South Korea has a vibrant queer scene, particularly in buzzing Seoul. The mainstream society remains fairly conservative, though, and many queer people remain in the closet there. 3670, a new drama by director Joonho Park, explores this from the perspective of Kim Cheol-jun (You-hyun Cho), a handsome North Korean defector who escaped to South Korea…
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Scotland’s Pitlochry Theatre will debut OUT IN THE HILLS. a three-day celebration of LGBTQ+ theatre, music, and dance.
Barely some 40 miles south of Balmoral Castle in Scotland is the town of Pitlochry. Thanks to the nearness of Queen Victoria’s favorite residence, the town soon became a tourist attraction. At the center of this is the Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a large performing arts theatre that was conceived in the late 1940s by John Stewart,…
