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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “Nelly and Nadine “: the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944
The film captured me from the beginning; a sequence of a newsreel from April 28th, 1945 shot at Malmö Harbor, Sweden, in which a large group of women reaches freedom after German concentration camps. We see them smile and say hello to the camera, there is Nadine with her white scarf, striped uniform,…
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Queerguru’s preview of BFI Flare 2022 : Europe’s biggest and best queer Film Festival
The annual BFI Flare: London’s LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, is the biggest LGBTIQ+ film festival in Europe …… and we think the best too. This, the 36th Edition, will take place in person, and also offer a selection of titles available on BFI Player to UK-wide audiences, and to international audiences via Five Films…
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Notorious Newport: gay tales of booty, murder and mansions by the sea!
OSCAR WILDE TOURS are dedicated to connecting people to gay history and art which so helps our community (and allies) learn so much more about the journeys taken by some great men and women that have helped us shape our own lives. Sappho and Socrates, Michelangelo and Shakespeare, Marcel Proust and Oscar Wilde:…
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Time to rewatch “Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon”
After visiting the Royal Academy’s major new retrospective of Francis Bacon: Man and Beast you’ll probably want to rewatch John Mayburys 1998 movie on the troubled genius. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a no-hold-barred fictionalized account of the artist and his very tempestuous relationships. Bacon first spotted…
