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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews Cate Blanchett’s electrifying performance in Tár
THE NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES LEADS TO THE MOST BORING KIND OF CONFORMITY : Lydia Tar It is fair to say that this hypnotic movie belongs to its writer-director Todd Field and its actress Cate Blanchett. Meticulously made, Tár has many layers, it is a complex conversation piece set in the world of classical…
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Edison Farrow talks about opening HEAVEN his new gay club in Miami’s South Beach
For over two decades, EDISON FARROW has been a major moving force in creating exceptional nightlife for the LGBTQ community in Miami’s South Beach. From his Martini Tuesday get-togethers in some of SOBE’s fabulous Hotels to opening a Cabaret Club in the style of a New York Piano Bar where all the wait…
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SYLVIA SIMS who starred in ViCTIM in 1961 the very first UK film about homosexuality has died aged 89
The veteran British actress Sylvia Sims has died aged 89, and whilst ‘younger fands’ will remember her playing the Queen Mother opposite Dame Helen Mirren in the 2006 film The Queen, she will always be in Queerguru’s heart and mind for her performance in The Victim in 1961 This British neo noir suspense was a…
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‘Sam Kenyon’s ‘I am not Raymond Wallace: one man’s mistake is another man’s making’ reviewed by Jonathan Kemp for Queerguru
In this impressive debut, Sam Kenyon offers a painful meditation on lost opportunities and the grievous consequences of thwarted love. In prose that is as delicate as it is precise, we are given the tale of Ray and Joe, whose lives entwine briefly in New York in 1963 when Ray is just 21 years…
