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Queerguru reviews “Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy”
Nancy Buirski’s excellent documentary “Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy” was the perfect excuse to re-think about not just how Midnight Cowboy made such an impact on the world in general but also on me in particular. The time was 1965 and this was British filmmaker John Schlesinger’s fifth movie…
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‘UNDER G-D’ had its World Premiere at Sundance to mark the 50th Anniversary of Roe Vs Wade
Yesterday Sunday 20th Jan was the 50th Anniversary of the Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision ROE vs WADE. At the Sundance Film Festival, they marked it with the World Premiere of a new short film UNDER G-D. This documentary by filmmaker Paula Eiselt was Inspired by the lawsuits filed in Florida challenging the…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews award-winning absurdist comedy EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ONCE
Everything Everywhere All at Once is an absurdist, multi-award-winning, science-fiction comedy-drama from writer/directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known collectively as The Daniels). Michelle Yeoh plays middle-aged Chinese-American immigrant Evelyn who has a busy but drab life with her slightly useless husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), running the family’s laundrette in Simi Valley, CA. Her…
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Gay Rugby Player, LGBTQ activist and former bobsledder SIMON DUNN dies aged 35
It’s sad enough whenever there is a ‘death’ in our LGBTQ community but it’s particularly wretched when one is taken way before their time. It has just been announced that Simon Dunn, the Australian rugby player, activist, and former bobsledder has passed away at age 35. Dunn was the first openly gay man to…
