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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BLUE JEAN a brilliant new lesbian drama set in Thatcher’s Britain
“Do you know what the phrase ‘Fight or Flight’ means?” asks gay Geordie PE teacher Jean (Rosy McEwen) of her teenage students at the beginning of the brilliant new drama Blue Jean. It is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. It’s obviously on…
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LGBT+ history month: remembering the ‘Glamour Boys’ – the gay MPs who warned 1930s Britain about Nazism
In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Britain, homosexuality was an illicit act and would remain that way until 1967 when the law changed in England and Wales. Even though gay culture was vibrant, it existed mostly underground, its community was forced to socialize with a certain degree of covertness in order to…
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An anti-Valentines Day soiree in London
Getting away from roses, and chocolates, and fine dining for two, how about an anti-Valentine’s Day soirée celebrating queer-flavored desire Taking place in Bishopsgate Library, the evening will include life drawing with the East London Stripper Collective, performances from drag artists Bolly-Illusion and Saya Tikka, poetry readings from SL Grange and Aimée Lê,…
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Queerguru’s Richard Gilles reviews FULL TIME (aka À plein temps) a film by Eric Gravel
Full-time is an achievement of realistic cinema at its pinnacle. In this film, writer/director Eric Gravel directs a lonely heroine burning herself out between work and bringing two young children during a general strike in France, reminiscing of the most recent 2019 general strike. The result is a strong and realistic…
