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Alex Edelman: Just For Us in a special one-night Benefit Show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Alex Edelman a hilarious American Orthodox Jewish Comedian, is doing a special one-off benefit performance of his award-winning show JUST FOR US at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in honor of the show’s late director, Adam Brace. In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic rhetoric pointed in his direction online, standup comic Edelman decides…
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TONY MAIETTA : passionate queer film historian and TV host talks about The Golden Age of Hollywood
When a young Tony Maretta left Meadville, Pennsylvania and turned up in Los Angeles in the early 1990’s he was looking for the golden age of Hollywood which had long passed. So rather than just focus on acting he managed to pursue his dream and became a film historian, writer, and presenter. He…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews Canadian Drag Queen dramedy QUEEN TUT
The tale of Egyptian Nabil (Ryan Ali) his awareness and the reencounter, stitch by stitch, with his departed mother Selma in an urban overdeveloped Toronto. We learn Nabil, in his early 20s, was a single child from a broken marriage, he and his mother lived in Cairo, she passed away and he moved to…
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Gay Day Anaheim Disney takes on both a special meaning & our thanks for not cowing to DeSantis
Years ago, when Disneyland closed early more often, they would occasionally rent the park out for private parties. One such party was a “Gay Night” and we attended, but we didn’t really love it: stores were closed, restaurants closed, no parade, no characters, no fireworks. It felt like less than the full Disneyland experience.…
