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Looking for a LESBIAN BAR ? Try Paris they still have 4!
Last October Queerguru wrote about the docu-series that Lea Delaria had produced for the Lesbian Bar Project that carried the shocking news that in 2020 there were just 21 LESBIAN BARS remaining in the US. OutTraveler says that now risen to a grand total of 26, and NY has the most with 3 still…
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Russell Tovey previews LIFE IS EXCELLENT a new doc on radical queer poet/artist David Robilliard
Queerguru has written about Brit heartthrob actor Russell Tovey’s passion for Art before (https://queerguru.com/brit-actor-russell-tovey-gallerist-robert-diament-talk-queer-art/) but now he has taken it one step further with Life is Excellent. It’s a feature-length documentary chronicling the inimitable life of one of his heroes, David Robilliard — a radical queer poet and artist who died of AIDS at…
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Career Retrospective of experimental visual artist, filmmaker and poet ABIGAIL CHILD
New York’s Anthology Film Archives are presenting an important retrospective of the cinema of Abigail Child Poet, visual artist and filmmaker Child .has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works & installations and written six books. An acknowledged pioneer in montage, Child…
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From 1999 : DISCO HEAVEN : Holly Johnson’s tribute to all his friends he lost to AIDS
Back in 1999 Frankie Goes To Hollywood singer Holly Johnson released DISCO HEAVEN a heartfelt tribute to all the friends he had lost to AIDS. At the time Johnson told The Guardian It’s a song about remembering in a positive way your friends that aren’t here any more. You know they’re all there…
