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Road To Love : may not always be straight
From 2001 comes this queer tale from French filmmaker Rémi Lange about an Arab sociology student at the Sorbonne in Paris who decides to make a documentary about homosexuality as his class project. Karim (Karim Tarek) lives in the small top floor apartment with his girlfriend Sihem (Sihem Benamoune). She thinks butter melts in…
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Jaime Barton really rocks with her performance in the most traditional Brit concert ever
You really have to be a Brit (of a certain age) to fully appreciate the significance of Jamie Barton’s rather earth-shattering performance at the Last Night of The Proms in London. The Promenade Concerts , known as The Proms, were started in 1895, when up until then concerts were only for the rich Brit…
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Taylor Mac : actor, playwright and performance artist extraordinaire : A 24-Decade of Popular Musical History
The genius performance artist TAYLOR MAC is in Rhode Island today Sunday 15th September, and as we write judy (Taylor’s preferred pronoun) is currently on a Panel at Brown University Granoff Center for the Arts in Providence. However tomorrow at the Fenwick Theater in nearby Worcester in Mass, Mac will be performing an Abridged version…
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The Day Shall Come : a black comedy farce about some would-be terrorists
For Queerguru, British satirist Chris Morris’s feature film debut FOUR LIONS was one of the very best movies at Sundance in 2010. This black comedy about an inept group of British Pakistani terrorists pushed any hint of good taste out of the window and stunned the Park City crowd onto silence. It was not…
