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Phoenix
As WW2 ends German former nightclub singer Nelly is shot as she leaves Auschwitz and her face is severely disfigured. When she arrives back home to a war-torn Berlin, her best friend Lene takes control and whisks her off to see the best plastic surgeon money can buy. With all her Jewish family now dead…
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France Has Got (Naked) Talent
OK : so we thought the story we shared of Almar Atlason the student artist yesterday would be queerguru’s last naked tale for some time, but they keep coming and coming. This time it’s about full grown ‘mature’ award winning performance artist Brent Ray Fraser who was a contestant on France Has Got Talent TV…
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#nakedinabox
Yet another naked story lands in queerguru’s in-tray this morning, this one about a student at the Iceland Academy of the Arts who stripped off to live in a glass box as part of a class project. There is a live feed via You Tube for people to watch his every move day…
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Isaac Julien : Stones Against Diamonds
One of the very definite highlights of Art Basel 2015, the world’s leading contemporary Art Fair held in Miami Beach every December, is a new work by the British queer artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Commissioned by Rolls Royce Motor Cars the piece is titled Stones Against Diamonds and draws inspiration from a letter written by Brazilian…
