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Celebrating queer life …..and Pride …. in Britain’s southern seaside towns
In the 1960s the seaside resort town of Margate on the South Coast of the UK became the center for two conflicting British youth subcultures There were ‘rockers’ who dressed in black leather astride their motorbikes all thinking they were as cool as Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Mods on the other hand…
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Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” never seems to go away : here’s why
In the 1980s in the UK the music industry saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. Disco fell out of fashion and instead in came soft rock, glam metal, thrash metal, shred guitar characterized by heavy distortion, pinch harmonics, and whammy bar abuse became very popular. In 1987 topping…
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Queerguru reviews MY POLICEMAN that fails to live up all its hype
My Policeman is one of those overhyped films that come to you with a great promise that it fails to deliver. Pop star/actor Harry Styles may be very handsome but he is no matinee idol seems totally out of his depth playing a lead role. He is the least arresting policeman we have ever…
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Queerguru reviews Dustin Lance Black’s ‘ Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas’ The Film
Mama’s Boy : A Story From Our Americas. I fell in love with Dustin Lance Black in 2009. He was in LA accepting his Academy Award for writing the screenplay for MILK in which he made a promise to all the queer kids watching, that things would get better. The very next day Black’s mother…
