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Pageant Material : a queer take on Cinderalla
For his feature film directorial debut Jonothon Mitchell has queered up everyone’s favorite childhood fairy story : Cinderella. In Mitchell’s take the heroine is a hero, albeit a ‘fairy’ one, who lives in the Deep South with his wicked step daddy and his two thuggish step-brothers who literally want to beat the life out of…
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Ivo Dimchev : a musical genius we need to know
If you love the music of Anthony and The Johnsons as much as we do in the Queerguru Office, then we think you will appreciate the latest musical genius we have just stumbled upon. London based Bulgarian queer singer/songwriter/performance artist the wonderfully eccentric Ivo Dimchev is hard to describe. With his avant-garde vision he simply…
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The Shiny Shrimps : The best thing in speedos between here and Mykonos
Let’s get the elephant in the swimming trunks out of the way. The thing stopping this joyful underdog comedy, about a gay water polo team, from becoming a hit is that it is French and subtitled. Somewhere an eagle-eyed film exec is probably about to cash in on an American translation with a known…
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PRIDE : Photography of Stonewall & Beyond by Fred W. Darrah
Fred W. McDarrah was a staff photographer for The Village Voice and an author who became famous for documenting the cultural phenomenon known as the Beat Generation from its inception in the 1950s. His other claim to fame was his whole body of work photographing New York’s’ LGBTQ scene before and after the Stonewall…
