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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Portraits, protest, pride: photography and queerness – Sunil Gupta in conversation with Ghislain Pascal
London’s National Portrait Gallery is hosting a discussion of queerness in photography. And as we have come to expect from what is arguably the first national public gallery in the world that’s dedicated to portraits, it is doing is some style. Taking part will be Sunil Gupta, the judge of this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic…
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The Secret of Me : a compelling doc of a raging medical expose of how an Intersex person was mistreated
Last week was Intersex Awareness Day, which marked the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in North America in 1996, and was created to raise awareness of human rights issues facing intersex people and promote understanding, respect, and inclusion for intersex people. To celebrate the occasion in Australia the City of Sydney…
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Writer Hugo Timbrell talks to Queerguru about his new queer thriller AN INSTINCT @ Old Red Lion Theatre, London
Queerguru tracked down writer Hugo Timbrell down to the Old Red Lion Pub Theatre, which has been in Islington, London, for OVER 400 YEARS, well, the Pub anyway, they added the theatre in 1979. It’s where Hugo’s new play AN INSTINCT will open in November. It is billed as a queer thriller about a cabin,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews 3670, a thought-provoking tale of a shy North Korean gay defector’s assimilation into Seoul’s vibrant queer life.
South Korea has a vibrant queer scene, particularly in buzzing Seoul. The mainstream society remains fairly conservative, though, and many queer people remain in the closet there. 3670, a new drama by director Joonho Park, explores this from the perspective of Kim Cheol-jun (You-hyun Cho), a handsome North Korean defector who escaped to South Korea…
