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The Wound
Understanding the rites of passage for other cultures other than one’s own is often tough, but this new movie, the debut feature from white South African filmmaker John Trengove, focuses on an African tribal ritual that seems positively unbearable, and nigh on impossible to understand. Shot in a remote part of his country, it is the story…
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Rugby Strip
When queerguru went to school (!) a rugby strip was what we called the kits we donned to play this big butch (and very rough) game that was meant to make men of all us scrawny awkward teenagers. Nowadays however the term means something entirely different as it seems that every rugby team when they…
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queerguru reviews Amadeus
queerguru reviews the Provincetown Theater’s production of Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award Winning play AMADEUS : a highly fictionalized biography of the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his rival composer Antonio Salieri. Starring Billy Hough and James P Byrne who also directed. The review was filmed by Roger Walker-Dack for ‘queerguru reports’ on PTV’s Channel 99.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level
Great news if you live in Europe or your computer can play Region 2 DVD’s as next week sees the release of a fully restored high definition version of The Naked Civil Servant, unquestionably one of queerguru’s favorite classic queer movies. From 1976, it tells the remarkable true story of Quentin Crisp, self-proclaimed England’s…
