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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE MOVIES at Inside Out : Toronto’s Queer Film Fest
This Memorial Day Weekend the Queerguru Team has hot-tailed it over the border to Toronto where INSIDE OUT LBGTQ Film Fest is in full swing. Founded in 1991 Inside Out is Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival …. and one of our favorites too. We particularly like the fact that amongst all the Juried Awards…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews MAKE UP a story of unexpected male bonding
French restaurant critic blogger Sacha (Hugo Andre) moves into handsome Irish stockbroker Dan’s (Will Masheter) West London house as a lodger. Bumbling tee-total Sacha lives a fairly solitary existence and suffers from OCD, or neurodivergence. Dan is dynamic and successful, although has split up from his wife and drinks too much. On the face…
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HELMUT BERGER ‘The Most Beautiful Man In the World’ and longtime lover of Luchino Visconti dies aged 78
Austrian actor Helmut Berger, who was both incredibly handsome and talented was made into a major star in European cinema by auteur filmmaker Luchino Visconti who also became his boyfriend albeit there was a 40-year age difference. Visconti cast Berger in a spectacular role in his landmark 1969 epic The Damned in which he played…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews HIDDEN LETTERS the compelling tale of Chinese calligraphy that is secret code for women only
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, WOMEN IN CHINA WERE BORN TO OBEY THEIR FATHERS, HUSBANDS AND SONS. FORBIDDEN TO READ AND WRITE, THEIR VOICES WERE SILENCED. MOST LEFT NO RECORD OF THEIR LIVES. Nushu has many levels, is a secret that belongs to Chinese women, it is calligraphy made by women to preserve a secret…
