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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews MYSTERIOUS WAYS a rare queer NZ/Samoan love story
DO NOT MAKE UGLY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL Reverend Petter Simmons is an Anglican Vicar advocating for change at St. John´s Church in a small town in New Zealand . He is a widower, has a teenage daughter but is now in love with Samoan Jason, who served 8 years in prison and is the actual…
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Queer Brit comic Mark Bittlestone talks about his new show I NEED A STRAIGHT MAN that he is performing at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Mark Bittlestone claims he is the only gay comic in the world. Which in his neck of woods in the UK is known as a ‘porky pie’. He is however part of a new wave of younger comedians who are really making waves around the globe. QUEERGURU caught up with him as he was…
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The Lady Chablis finally arrives on Broadway courtesy of none other than the legendary Taylor Mac
The story of the (late) great The Lady Chablis the larger than life trans club performer that the whole world met though the bestselling nonfiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, has just made it to Broadway. She must be wildly grinning from her grave. The book, written by John Berendt is…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews THE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER (La bella estate) from Laura Luchetti
Set in Pre-war Turin with Benito Mussolini´s speeches as background, the film shows the journey into adulthood of a young woman from the countryside coming to the city with her brother, in a story held by pins. Ginia (Yile Yara Vianello) is a skillful and dedicated seamstress, dress and pattern maker working at a…
