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Little Girl : a 7 year old trans girl living her truth : reviewed by Queerguru’s Ris Fatah
Little Girl is the touching French documentary portrait of seven-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender, and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still largely invested in a traditional boy-girl way of thinking. Acclaimed documentary maker Sebastian Lifshitz was motivated to create this sympathetic, intimate documentary whilst making…
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Coming Out in Football is still a very big deal : here are the latest 2 brave souls
Sport (and particularly football) is still one of the last great bastions of homophobia (and misogyny) that ensures that the LGBTQ+ communities acceptance is often at a snail’s pace. So much so when 21-year Australian professional footballer Josh Cavallo came out as gay this week it made headlines around the world which is still…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews DIana The Musical and asks “Oh Diana, what would you think of this?”
Diana the musical, now available on Netflix, is a filmed version of the Broadway show, currently on at the Longacre Theatre, W 48th St, NY. The story is about Diana, Princess of Wales, the most famous woman of the modern age, and covers her life from age 19, when Diana Spencer first meets Charles,…
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This Gay Artist Challenged Sexuality Norms Long Before We Could Imagine
Celebrating homoeroticism, androgyny, nakedness & unbounded love REPRINTED FROM https://medium.com/ COPYRIGHT Kamna Kirti Idyll by George Quaintance. Can you imagine a gay visual artist in 1950s America who embraced gender fluidity long before the term was even coined? Imagine how difficult it would be to aesthetically portray homoeroticism long before when being gay was not…
