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Queerguru’s man-in-Thailand Glenn John is getting ready to celebrate Marriage Equality (and maybe witness a new Guinness World Record)
On January 22, Thailand Adopts “True” Marriage Equality Historically, Thailand has always been incredibly more tolerant of LGBTQ persons. So much so, that it probably hampered any big rush legislatively or among the populace to codify “gay” rights here such as same sex marriage. The tolerance and acceptance of gays is ingrained — especially if…
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Jonathan Bailey (our hearthrob-de-jour) swaps the big screen to be a KIng on the London Stage
Most of the Queerguru Team think their colleague Contributing Editor Andrew Hebden has won the equivalent of a queer lottery. Why? Because very soon he will be getting a close up view of our hearthrob-du-jour Jonathan Bailey as he performs RICHARD II live on stage in London. The Bridgerton and Wicked actor will star in…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden falls in love (again) when reviewing FIREBIRD the play at London’s Kings Head Theatre
FIREBIRD **** KINGS HEAD THEATRE, London Queerguru loved Firebird the movie, screenplay by Peter Rebane and Tom Prior, based on a memoir by Sergey Fetisov. We loved it for its completeness as a story. It ended when everything that should be said had been said. And now we love Firebird the play written by Richard…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WICKED : a fairy-tale, fantasy pop musical that is an assault on the senses.
Oh, where to begin with Wicked? Well director John M Chu‘s screen adaptation of the Broadway smash hit has taken over $600m at the box office in little over a month, and that can’t all be due to the genius casting of queer icon Jonathan Bailey as the love interest of Ariana Grande.…