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The Fruit Machine : how Canada persecuted the LGBT community in the past

For those of us in the LGBTQ community in the US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay. …

March 9, 2019
Dancing In The Living Room

Country music is one genre that has very few openly gay performers. We could count just five : Chely Wright, Ty Herndon, Billy Gilman, Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark. We guess at a pinch you could include Steve Grand who’s viral video hit in 2014 ‘All American Boy‘ was a wee bit country too.…

March 9, 2019
On The [Queer] Waterfront

Queerguru is always happy to recognise any project/performance art/film that celebrates the history of our community, It’s a subject that was neglected for far too long, and is one that is very dear to our hearts, as it honors and remembers what shaped who we are today. The Brooklyn Historical Society has just opened a…

March 9, 2019
Woke : how a closeted French Muslim”s coming out changed everyone”s lives

Sullivan Le Postec created the award-winning series, Woke for Studio 4, the French public broadcaster’s web fiction platform in 2017. Now available globally, it is the story of the melodramatic comings and goings of an LGBTQ Drop In Center in Lyons, which is suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of Hitcham (Mehdi Meskar)…

March 8, 2019