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Drag Out The Vote
In a recent interview we filmed with drag performer and now candidate for NY City Council, Marti Gould Cummings, she told QUEERGURU that everything about doing drag is a political act. She is now one of several drag queens and other performers who have recorded this message as to why it is so very…
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Miss Varla Jean Merman and her ode to the Notre Dame Fire
When Varla Jean Merman was in #PTown this summer at Provincetown Art House Theatre she always closed Varla Jean Merman: A Star Is Bored with her very special tribute song to the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris disaster. One night QUERRGURU’S Cameras were there to record it for posterity, Filmed by Dan Desjardins
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Six Characters In Search Of A Play : the work of Del Shores wickedly funny imagination
Queer writer/performer DEL SHORES is the comic genius who created classic gay plays/films such as Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies that made us all re-think about what it’s like to be queer in the Deep South. It wasn’t just Brother Boy that gave Leslie Jordan the best role of his career, it was…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward reviews REDD by Boy Blue at London’s Barbican Theatre
REDD by Boy Blue ☆☆☆ Barbican There is a poem by the singer/songwriter Rachel ‘Maiday’ Moulden in the programmes for tonight’s show. It’s a touching meditation on the nature of bereavement called ‘Words on Grief’. Choreographer Kenrick ‘H20’ Sandy (Olivier nominated for Blak Whyte Gray in 2017) has taken this as basis to develop…
