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Beauty & Decay : revisiting a life in East Berlin
It’s been exactly 30 years since the Berlin Wall came down so East Berliner ex-punk photographer Sven Marquardt revisits his old haunts with his former muse Dome (Dominique Hollenstein) to do another photo shoot just like the old days. Since he settled in the West, Marquardt has carved out a fierce reputation for manning…
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Saint Maud : a skin clawing creeper
For the very first time Andrew Hebden one of QUEERGURU’s London team has literally moved into London’s South Bank for the next 2 weeks to cover the prestigious BFI London Film Festival . He’ll be reviewing not just all the excellent queer films screening there but movies he thinks will appeal to the whole…
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A Luv Tale : about 4 queer women in Harlem
It’s been 20 years since director’ Sidra Smith’s debut film A Luv Tale played the Film Festival circuit and picked up a couple of Audience Awards. Now she is back with a 6 part web series of the same name that picks up where she left off with the story of the lives of…
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State of Pride : YouTube star Raymond Braun investigates
When queer Oscar winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedmann were commissioned by YouTube Originals to make a documentary to mark the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall they chose Raymond Braun a young LGBT YouTube star to front the project. Braun, once recognized on Forbes’ 30 under 30, was born 21 years after the Riots…
