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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur’ @ Wallace Collection, London
In an era of global stress and uncertainty, the role of Britain’s national treasures is more important than ever – their strength, fortitude and long-term outlooks a comfort to the troubled. There’s safety in numbers, so the new collaboration between two of Britain’s great national treasures, artist Grayson Perry and the Wallace Collection museum, is…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘MANOK’ : how a Korean lesbian had to re-invent herself when she reached middle-age
Manok (Yang Mal-bok) is a lesbian bar owner and has run the lively, colorful Lainbow Bar in Seoul, South Korea for twenty years. She’s strong, feisty, and not afraid to voice her opinions, which leads the middle-aged Manok to clash with some of her younger customers, who don’t spend as much money as she’d like,…
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Queergurus Top Picks of Must See Movies at WICKED QUEER, Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival
If you have never been to Boston in Massachusetts (shame on you), you may not be familiar with the term ‘WICKED’ which is one of our favorite Bostonian slang words. It was all started in the 1960s by a schoolteacher in nearby Somerville who intended it to be used by his pupils to express…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘WE ARE FAHEEM AND KARUN’ the first ever Kashmiri queer film screening at BFI FLARE, London
Karun (Akash Unnimenon), a handsome young security officer from Kerala, is stationed in a remote village in Kashmir. One day he meets Faheem (Tawseef Mir), a charming, equally attractive, student returning from college to visit his family, who stops his motorbike at Karun’s checkpoint. The two men fleetingly lock their beautiful eyes, before parting company.…
