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Josh Howard talks about The Lavender Scare
queerguru caught up with Emmy Award winning producer and director Josh Howard at Miami’s OUTShine Film Festival just before the screening of his new movie. The Lavender Scare is the first documentary film to tell the little-known story of an unrelenting campaign by the federal government to identify and fire all employees suspected of…
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Moises Serrano talks about “Forbidden” with queerguru
24 year old Moises Serrano is one of those selfless millennials who are determined to make their mark on the world by putting themselves on the line to really make a difference for his community. Both queer and undocumented, this fearless activist has risked his own security by coming out and being prepared to…
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UK : a Boxing Love Story
Rob Ward’s play Gypsy Queens a rather touching LGBTQ love story between two boxers is currently wowing audiences up and down the U.K. after a successful run in London’s West End last October. It is the story of “Gorgeous George” O’Connell, a bare-knuckle fighter and traveller, who enters the world of professional boxing putting him…
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Something Like Summer
Something like Summer the rather accomplished directing debut of David Berry from a script by Carlos Pedraza is full of surprises. What starts out as a sweet LGBT romantic coming-of-age musical actually ends up as melodrama, and a very definite tear-jerker too. In between it covers a lot of ground always trying (and succeeding most of the time) it…
