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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘BABY’ a new queer drama from Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Caetano
This Brazilian film directed by Marcelo Caetano tells the story of 18-year-old Wellington (Joao Pedro Mariano), in search of his family and in need of a signature to be released from the Youth Detention Center where he has been held for the last two years. The streets of São Paulo are a picture-perfect scenario where Wellington…
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NAME OF THE GAME tracks the rise and fall of male exotic dancing in the US
Are we being naive? But we always thought that male strippers only performed for male/queer audiences. According to the new movie, NAME OF THE GAME, that is about to be released, we have it all wrong. The Chippendales and Magic Mike have a lot to answer for in the wake of their major successes; as…
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Dublin’s new large-scale music festival ‘DYKONIC’ designed by and for queer women, non-binary folk,
We can never seem to get enough queer music festivals, so we really welcome the news from Dublin that they are about to launch the Dykonic Festival. It will be Ireland’s first-ever large-scale music festival designed by and for queer women, non-binary folk, and the wider FLINTA community. It’s the outdoor extension of Dykon, the…
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Pattie Gonia : an environmental and LGBTQ+ activist and community organizer : and a rather fabulous drag queen
The first queer Gen Z kids were born the same year that RuPaul started their first Drag Race TV program ….. and yes, it was in this century, although its often hard for some of us to remember those days when we didn’t risk seeing her when we turned on our TV. This kids are…
