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Alain Delon a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century has died aged 88
Alain Delon who died this week was acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century. Delon emerged as one of the foremost European actors of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and became an international sex symbol. Although totally heterosexual he became a symbolic icon for the the queer community which…
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Here’s an early Christmas gift : Pedro Almodovar’s first film made in English : THE ROOM NEXT DOOR starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton
Any new Almodovar film is cause for celebration, and even more so this time as its his first one made in English. Starring two Oscar winning actors Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, is not being released until ‘award season’ in December. The film follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha…
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Did Jonathan Bailey really need to wear a prosthetic ‘limb’ for the queer TV drama FELLOW TRAVELERSor could he have gone just ‘au naturel’?
OK so its confession time. We cannot find one member of the Queerguru Team that does nt have an unrequited major crush on openly gay Brit actor JONATHAN BAILEY. He’s actually been acting since he was 8 years old (he’s now the grand old age of 36 ), but to be completely honest…
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MARIPOSA a queer adaptation of Madame Butterfly by CARLOS PONS GUERRA : full of faded showgirls, troubled sailors and hopeful rent boys
Mariposa, a Queer Tragedy inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly by Carlos Pons Guerra (‘The Pedro Almodovar of dance’) and the DeNada Dance Theatre is about to embark on a UK National Tour. Its an operatic dance drama, that transports Puccini’s Orientalist libretto to post-revolution Cuba, to a dockland world of faded showgirls, hopeful…
