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Queer East travels the UK for its tour On the Road
Queer East is an LGBTQ+ film festival that showcases rarely-seen queer cinema from East and Southeast Asia. Seeking to amplify the voices of Asian communities in the UK, the festival explores the forces that have shaped the current queer landscape in Asia, and aims to encourage more inclusive narratives. Following the success of its…
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Drag Queen Coleslaw’s Corner Is Back at Boston’s Museum Of Science
Boston drag queen Coleslaw Corner is Back. However, you will not find her at Club Cafe or any other of the city’s gay bars. She’s returning to her home from home: Boston’s Museum of Science Her performance is part of the Museum’s of SubSpace programming, an initiative marketed “for adults looking for something different”…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden @BFI London Film Fest reviews “A Room Of My Own” that makes a case for how sad moments define people
A Room of My Own (Directed by Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze), set in Tbilisi, Georgia, during the pandemic asks one central question; do circumstances turn you into a mess, or does being a mess create your circumstances? It then artfully avoids coming down on one side or the other. Tina (Taki Mumladze, also the co-writer…
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This Arab is Queer : a must read anthology by Elias Jahshan
Elias Jahshan, an Australian journalist of Palestinian and Lebanese descent living in London, asked 18 writers who were born or raised in the Arab region or who are from the diaspora to ruminate on this intersection of their identity. The result is a new anthology This Arab is Queer, that has just been…
