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Gilbert & George : New Normal Pictures Exhibit
A new GILBERT & GEORGE Exhibit is always a reason for celebration. These two queer artists have worked together as a collaborative art duo for over 50 years winning every major prestigious art prize ……like the Tate’s Turner Award. More importantly, their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner in performance art, and also…
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1980’s classic queer drama JERKER is revived
Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley. Chesley wrote the play because he believed it was “important to remove the stigma…
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Queerguru’s Curated Curios …….. and News 4/24
Rev. Raymond Broshears was a gay preacher from Illinois who moved to San Francisco in 1965. It was there, after being beaten by a group of teenagers, that he decided to protect his community. He formed the Lavender Panthers, a group of armed gay activists on the prowl for would-be gay bashers. Read MORE …
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Andrew Hebden reviews the urine trouble in Agnieszka Holland’s CHARLATAN
Agnieszka Holland’s biographical tale of a Czech herbal expert who makes a living diagnosing patients by their urine samples may not exactly be everyone’s cup of pee at first. However barely submerged within it is a commentary on the suffocating totalitarian regime it happens under and a pointed statement that supposedly absurd practices supported by…
