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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah previews Natural Behaviour, the latest show by the brilliantly named avant-garde dance theatre company Thick and Tight.
Avant-garde dance theatre company Thick & Tight (brilliant name – why has no one used this before?!) present their latest show, Natural Behaviour, on at London’s Battersea Arts Centre this 3-7th June. The show, a follow on from 2024’s Tits & Teeth show (also a genius name), is a collection of performed portraits of…
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To mark his 95th Birthday, Opera Parralle in SF present the opera HARVEY MILK: REIMAGINED
The best part of landing in San Francisco Airport recently after a very (!) long absence was discovering the Terminal was named after HARVEY MILK. It immediately conjured up such wonderful memories of one of the iconic early leaders of the fledgling LGBTQA+ community, who lost his life in the fight for our rights. In…
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Queerguru reviews QUEENS OF DRAMA a French queer pop musical
This is one of those times when you shouldn’t judge a queer film by its title. In my head, QUEENS OF DRAMA conjured up visions of drag queens a la Ru Paul, but it is, in fact, a French lesbian musical where Mimi Madamour (Louiza Aura) a young pop star falls hook, line, and sinker…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews FLAMINGO CAMP : documents the thriving golden days of a queer and trans community on the fringe of society
Slab City is an off-grid alternative lifestyle community in the California desert, about 90 miles southeast of Palm Springs. Formerly a US military base, the abandoned site has, since the mid-1980s, become a seasonal home to up to 4000 nomadic people of all ages. There are many different kinds of resident–van lifers, alternative thinkers, people…
