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Pig Week Fort Lauderdale: for gay men who love some debauchery and kink.
The day after Thanksgiving when most of the USA are cursing themselves for overeating an excessive turkey dinner and being quite a pig, it takes on a whole different meaning in Fort Lauderdale. For this is the day the Annual Pig Week starts in earnest, for which gay men who enjoy a bit of…
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Branden & James: A (rather wonderful) Christmas Gift
One of the annual treats of Queerguru’s summers up in PTown, Mass is that we get to hang out with the talented vocal and cello duo Branden and James. This July it was in bed. Well, to be truthful they were under the covers in their bedroom at the Pilgrim House Hotel and we…
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Die Surely : just another queer Thanksgiving-from-hell story
If you have just been to one of those never-again family Thanksgivings from hell, then you will so relate to this rather wacky short film Die Surely It’s the story of when gender-nonconforming Shirley Sadstone, crashes Thanksgiving dinner to the chagrin of the holier-than-thou family members. Pleasantries are quickly pushed aside when Shirley arrives…
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Queerguru reviews Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST one of the best family dramas of the year
Kenneth Branagh’s heart-wrenching family drama based loosely on his own childhood in the capital of Northern Ireland is a very personal account of growing up in the midst of a civil war. Set in 1969 when Branagh was just nine years old and when the violent conflict between the Protestant and Catholic populations was…
