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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews SING SING : An approach tp the justice system based on human dignity
The opening sequence presents a group of actors on stage receiving applause, afterwards they change their costumes for green uniforms and are taken back to Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, where they are incarcerated. For this group of prisoners, playing Shakespeare is usual; Midsummer Night´s Dream, Hamlet, and King Lear have been included in their…
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Queerguru reviews BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY probably the most memorable queer film this year
Croatia is hardly known to be a prolific source of queer movies, but maybe that is about change. Of the 11 movies so far in its history, two of them have been released this year. First was SANDBAG DAM, a superb coming-of-age drama that was nominated for the prestigious queer Teddy Award at the Berlinale,…
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Was Sir Arthur Guinness gay? Well, Netflix thinks he was.
There was a time in British history when wealthy young men….. especially the handsome ones …. who never married were assumed gay. Although in the case of Sir Arthur Guinness, subject to such rumors, he did wed but very strangely for that period, he never had any children. Back then in the 1860s, Ireland was…
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The Best of The UK’s Girl Singers of the 1960’s ( who somehow seem the epitome of camp now!
Britain was the world’s undisputed centre of pop in the 1960s. Though male groups dominated the UK charts, each of the four main record labels had a girl singer to satisfy those teenagers in need of a heroine fix. And give all those gay men a whole new slew of icons to worship. Together…
