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The Copla Musical : how a drag sensation, finds love… yet always struggles to merge her Spanish past with her American future.
The copla is a form of Spanish popular genre of risqué cabaret songs which had its heyday in the 1930s. The lyrics often feature marginalized characters, including prostitutes, sailors, escaped convicts, gypsies, and so on, and have themes based on the “illegitimacy of all relationships outside the recognized heterosexual marriage” (i.e., mistreated women,…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews BIRDER a nightmarish erotic thriller
Kristian (Michael Emery) was born in Texas, he is a handsome, rich, and unencumbered birdwatcher photographer visiting Lotus Cove, a nude queer campground by a lake in New Hampshire where clothing is optional. The camp was established by the Polk family as a trust to their late son who died in the AIDS holocaust…
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Circa: Queer Histories Festival a month long celebration at Los Angelas LGBTQ+ Center
Hard to believe that ONE Magazine was first published 70 years becoming the first widely distributed gay publication in the United States. To celebrate the occasion the Los Angeles LGBT Center is mounting a new Exhibit that kicks off the inaugural “Circa: Queer Histories Festival,” a monthlong celebration of the seven decades of the…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THIS IS NOT ME the story of the journey of two Iranian trans people
“I don’t want to be free of you. I want you to be free.” cries Shervin Ramezan’s sympathetic father as the family discusses the possibility of 16-year-old Shervin moving abroad to transition to a man in a more hospitable environment than Iran. Saeed Gholipour’s moving documentary, This Is Not Me, follows Shervin and fellow…
