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Dear Mom, Sorry For Being a Bitch. @ Soho Playhouse : perfect for Mother’s Day
If you are still not sure what to get for this weeks Mothers Day then we’ll share what Queerguru is doing. We are heading to the Soho Playhouse in NY for revival of Dear Mom, Sorry For Being a Bitch which is a one-woman by Christine Covode (with guests) love letter and apology…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SUNFLOWER a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama from Australia
Australia’s rough, macho culture is examined from a queer perspective in Sunflower, a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama set in the suburbs of Melbourne. Director/writer Gabriel Carrubba’s debut introduces us to Leo (Liam Mollica), a handsome, strapping seventeen-year-old high school student. His home is a working-class Greek-Italian household with his truck driver dad (Sal Galofaro), mum…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ‘The Lost Boys (Le Paradis)’ where to fall in love is against the rules
A sequence of still images of a place that seems to be a mansion into the woods introduces us to lonely Joe (Khalil Gharbia) wearing a red t-shirt. After a while we learn the residence is a juvenile reform center. Joe has Arab roots and shards of memories with his mother walking on a…
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Queerguru Opinion Piece : Is Scotland about to Turn The Clock back on LGBTQ+ rights?
To an outsider the British Parliamentary system may seem a tad arcane especially since it devolved some (limited) powers to the four countries that make up the UK. One of these being Scotland and in the 1920s it witnessed the startof a political movement that wanted independence for Scotland. This in time …
