QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews A HOUSE IS NOT A DISCO … Brian J Smith’s love letter to Fire Island
Fire Island. The place is evocative to so many queers around the world. The narrow ten square miles sand bar of 600 beach houses, a hundred co-ops, a beautiful beach, wooden boardwalks, no roads or cars, and a handful of commercial businesses is 49 miles off the coast of New York City in…
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Queerguru reviews BLUE SUNSHINE a remarkable must-see transitioning story from India that both entertains and educates
One of the sheer joys and benefits of being a queer film reviewer is that we get to be on the frontline to see how and when our community emerges from the darkness of our past and continues to self-determines its own destiny. Its also the way we can learn about the other parts…
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UNFROSTED a (very camp) tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen
Having grown up in the UK many of the major cultural developments in the US simply passed me by unnoticed. Such as the major battle that took place in Michigan in 1963 that was destined to change the nation’s breakfast habits for ever. The country’s largest cereal producers KELLOGGS and POST were sworn rivals…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah can hardly contain his excitement as he revisits KINKY GERLINKY London’s legendary queer club of the late 1980s/early 1990s
London’s legendary late 1980s/early 1990s queer club night Kinky Gerlinky is back in the spotlight with the release of a twenty-one-episode set of footage from the infamous club. Film-maker and photographer Dick Jewell, then partner of one of the resident DJs Rachel Auburn, shot over 200 hours of footage at the club during 1990-92.…
