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Over 80% of the actors at the casting for Jayro Bustamante’s film refused to play ‘gay’
When Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante‘s went to cast his sophomore film a drama about a married man who comes out as gay he was shocked to discover that over 80% of the actors at the casting would not play ‘gay’ . He needn’t have worried though as he chose the extremely talented actor JUAN PABLO…
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Tremors (aka Temblores )
For his sophomore film TREMORS, which is also the 2nd movie from Guatemala with an LGBTQ story line, the award-winning writer/director Jayro Bustamante was met with some resistance at the casting stage when over 80% of the local actors refused to play a gay man. He needn’t have worried though as he chose the…
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Nancy Pelosi promises us an Equality Act
Getting good news from Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become almost a daily ritual now, and in this political climate that the current Administration have debased beyond what we ever could have ever imagined, she has become our Hero. Yesterday the Speaker promised that an Equality Act, which would ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination nationwide in employment,…
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Brit queer writer TOM WRIGHT talks about his new play UNDETECTABLE
Brit queer playwright Tom Wright is following his sold out run of My Dad’s Gap Year at London’s Park Theatre with his brand new play #UNDETECTABLE directed (as always) by Rikki Beadle-Blair at London’s King’s Head Theatre. He talked to QUEERGURU via Facetime on the eve on its opening about this, and also the healthy state of queer theatre.
