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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews RAINS OVER BABEL : a fierce, steampunk, feisty, maximum-impact action drama
Get ready for a treat with Rains Over Babel, a glorious queer Afro-Colombian retro-futuristic tropical punk assault on the senses. Director Gala del Sol’s gem premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Fest and is sure to make its mark as it reaches wider audiences. Based in and around Babel, a late-night neon-lit dive/cabaret bar in…
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In the center of Castro in the center of SF’s gay neighborhood is the GLBT Historical Society : the story of how our past shaped us now
As Queerguru was making a long overdue visit back ‘home’ to San Francisco, it seemed after we discovered what is new and hot, we should re-visit the parts of the city that made it such an important destination all those years ago for the queer community. So there is the heart of the Castro in…
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WILLIAM FINN. the Writer/Composer who mined his own gay/Jewish life into Tony Award winning Musicals has died aged 73
The extraordinarily talented writer/composer William Finn mined his own life as a gay Jewish man in NY who created a trilogy of award-winning musicals that were particularly admired by what a ‘friend’ viciously described as ‘show tune queens.’ That’s a tad too dismissive of a man (and his fans) who lyrically captured a whole generation…
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Despite the Despot President and the rampantly homophobic Governor ITS STILL GOOD TO BE GAY IN FLORIDA
If there ever was a time when we needed to come together as a queer community in Florida its NOW! With the Despot President holed up in his glitzy ‘trailer’ home in the midst of the State’s Senior Citizens Community and whose rampant homophobia is matched by the State’s incumbant Governer, we need to be…
