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FRANKIE FEST – A QUEER ROCK FESTIVAL HONORING THE LEGACY OF FRANKIE REX
Today The FMs announce the first-ever Frankie Fest – an annual queer rock festival honoring the legacy of Frankie Rex – taking place on May 11 at Coney Island USA. Frankie was an up-and-coming trans-masc singer and one-half of the alternative duo The FMs, died in 1922 aged 37. The…
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First preview of Sophie Dupuis’s queer drama “SOLO” set in Montreal’s Drag Scene + starring Félix Maritaud & Théodore Pellerin
Queerguru became a major fan of French actor Félix Maritaud who’s breakthrough performance in Robin Campillo’s ‘120 BPM‘ which picked up 50 Awards include 3 from Cannes. Maritaud followed that up one year later in 2018 with a stunning performance starring in Sauvage/Wild for which he won Best Newcomer Award at Cannes. We…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews “GAY USA” first American feature-length documentary by and about LGBTQ+ people.from 1977
Step back in time to another era of queer life with the relaunch of Gay USA, the seminal 1977 documentary on the huge Pride protests/celebrations of that summer. Now digitally remastered, Arthur J Bressan Jr.’s iconic time-capsule film was the first documentary by queer people about queer people. Gay USA saw 25 photographers/interviewers…
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Must See Theater : TAYLOR MAC starring in Sarah Ruhl’s ORLANDO at NY’s Signature Theater
Queerguru needs a very good reason to leave sunny Miami for a bitterly cold New York but here is an excellent one……Taylor Mac. The genius actor/performer/writer is a self-described “fool” and “collagist” who puts together forms and costumes to create a complex and sometimes contradictory look and sound. As he has resisted categorization by…
