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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward reviews an All-Male Jazz Ballet double-bill in London’s Garden Theatre
Coppelia and The Supermarket Suite ☆☆☆☆☆ St Gabriel’s Halls London This double bill of all-male jazz ballet starts with Supermarket Sweep set to The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky and concludes with Coppelia by Delibes. The opening scene of Supermarket Sweep sees life working in a supermarket through the eyes of two members of staff (performed by…
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Bridesman : a new comic web series from Grindr
Grindr the world’s biggest gay hookup app/site has not always enjoyed a particularly good reputation beyond its users. In 2017, when it was owned by the Chinese gaming company Kunlin, its president Scott Chen commented “Some think marriage is between a man and a woman. I think so, too, but it’s a personal matter.” …
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From Queerguru Archives : the delightful TEDDY BEAR a Sundance Winner in 2012
This is the story of Dennis (Kim Kold) a Danish middle-aged pumped-up 6′ 5″ bodybuilder who weighs in at 305 lbs but still lives at home with his diminutive shrew of a mother who bullies him like mad. After Dennis’s old Uncle Bent (Allan Mogensen) marries his new young Thai bride it sets him off…
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Queerguru reviews THE BEST FAMILIES a comedy of errors by Javier Fuentes-León (Undertow)
Its been 12 years since Peruvian writer/director Javier Fuentes-León’s award-winning queer fantasy/romance UNDERTOW grabbed all our attention. Not just because an LGBTQ film from his country is still a rarity but because it was such a remarkable and wonderful ghost story. This tale of a married fisherman who struggles to reconcile his devotion to…
