QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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THE KING’S SPEECH
Albert, the Duke of York, was the 2nd son of King George V and as a Naval Officer and husband and father with two young children he enjoyed a calm and privileged life and the freedom that came with not being the Heir to the British Throne. That all changed suddenly with the unexpected death…
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THE BLACK SWAN
Nina is a very typical ballerina obsessively consumed with the New York City ballet company where she is desperate to be plucked from the Corps to be a Principal. Egged on by her former ballerina mother Erica who is desperate that her daughter gets the big break that she never had, and so exerts a…
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MADE IN DAGENHAM
In 1968 a group of some 180 women machinists in the Ford Factory in Dagenham, a London suburb, defied the fiercely male entrenched society at the time and did the unheard of thing by going out on strike and demanding equal pay. Lined up against them were Trade Union Officials that cozied up to Management,…
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Burlesque
A young girl fed up with waitress-ing in a diner in some God-forsaken place in the Midwest, decides to pack it all in and get a one-way train ticket to LA to seek her fame and fortune. She stumbles on the Burlesque Club run by a fading Star that features a lot of very scantily…
