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Dragtime : looking back in time
A great wee find on YouTube (so its free) is this thoroughly entertaining HBO documentary by then newbie director Patti Kaplan about some of our favorite Drag Queens. The year is 1997 and Jeff Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman is so young he is totally unrecognizable in men’s attire : Lady Bunny had more…
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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…
