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DAVID HOYLE talks
The legendary Brit queer performer David Hoyle one of the very first ‘alternative drag’ artists talks about his new film Uncle David 2, Holly Revell Photographer book #ParallelUniverse and performing at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern and more The interview with Roger Walker-Dack for www.queergurutv.com was recorded at BFI Flare Southbank
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Anything
Bringing any work of fiction involving a transgender character to the screen these days can often be fraught with consequences that can overshadow the movie itself. Whereas not too long ago Eddie Redmayne received an Oscar nomination for starring in The Danish Girl, and then Jared Leto won an Oscar for playing a trans woman…
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Feminist Fight Club
One of the regular events held at VFD one of the best queer performance spaces in London’s East End is Femme Feral. It’s a queer fight club that takes no prisoners and holds nothing back. Founded by artists Phoebe Patey-Ferguson and Anna Smith in the dark days after Britain voted to leave the European Union,…
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
There already have been several documentaries about the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat who is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, but Sara Driver’s new one just focuses purely on his late teenage years. There is no discussion on his childhood in Brooklyn or how he ended up in SoHo the first place, as…
