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Mayor Mamdani Signs Executive Order Establishing the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs; Appoints Taylor Brown as Director
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (THE NY Mayor that we have waited so long for)…signed an executive order establishing the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs and appointed Taylor Brown, currently an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General, as its director. With this appointment, Brown becomes the first…
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Queerguru’s (newest) Contributing Editor DAVID ALLEN rallies to the message of hope in ‘ADAM’S APPLE’
In a time where the loudest voices offering up their opinions and making decisions about trans people aren’t trans themselves, Adam Sieswerda, with his mother Amy Jenkins, provides a voice we need to be listening to in the documentary ADAM’S APPLE. Amy is an accomplished artist who has been visually documenting her life since her…
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We have a VERY firm date with Miranda Priestly on May 1st ….YEAH
At QUEERGURU, we try not to fill our date book too far ahead in case we miss some last-minute news-worthy event. But when it comes to May 1st, forget it. WE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE OUR WHOLE TEAM WILL BE! In case you haven’t noticed its the first day that THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 is…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ’10s ACROSS THE BORDERS’ documentary about the ballroom scenes in The Phillipines & Thailand
New York’s legendary ballroom scene continues to make an impact around the world. Ball culture was famously immortalised in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, which examined the mid-to-late 80s African-American, LatinX, queer, and trans-led scene, which was founded by Crystal LaBeija in 1968. Madonna then came calling with Vogue, and more recently, Ryan Murphy’s 2018 drama…
