QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
-
National Task Forces CREATING CHANGE the nation’s foremost political, leadership, and skills-building conference for the LGBTQ+ movement
Now more than ever our community so needs the work of the National LGBTQ+ Task Force in this rampant ant-homophobic political climate. Their key project is their annual CREATING CHANGE which is specifically the nation’s foremost political, leadership, and skills-building conference for the LGBTQ+ movement. It’s based on the reality that despite all…
-
Atlanta’s OUTFRONT THEATRE kicks off the New Year with AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN
Out Front Theatre Company -Georgia’s only LGBTQIA+ professional theatre company stopped us in our tracks just with the title of the latest production AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN, The wake is for drag star Courtney Berringers (given name: Anthony Knighton) has recently died from complications due to AIDS. But even…
-
BBC Scotland’s Clò Mòr is the first Gaelic drama to feature a romantic same-sex storyline in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides,
The Spanish are streets ahead when it comes to producing culture in Catalan, the official regional language of Andorra, and the official language of two autonomous communities in eastern Spain (think queer TV series Merli). Now it’s the Scots who are stepping up to the plate with a remarkable new drama produced in Gaelic…
-
Queerguru’s James Judd reviews FIREWORKS a Italian queer love story based on an infamous hate crime
Can’t two twinks fall in love in peace in 1980 Sicily? No. In a nutshell, that is the story of Fireworks, a new film by Giuseppe Fiorello based on the true story of an infamous hate crime. It imagines the days leading up to the murder of two young men whose deaths caused…
