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Spring Awakening : Those You’ve Known
By the time we saw SPRING AWAKENING at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in 2007 it had already won 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical. We can confidently say its one of the finest pieces of theater we have ever seen Its also where we (and the rest of the World) fell in love with…
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Will Andrew Ahn’s FIRE ISLAND be this summer’s hot rom-com?
Searchlight Pictures have just released the first trailer of Andrew Ahn’s latest movie FIRE ISLAND, It’s the story of a group of queer best friends who gather in the Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but a sudden change of events might make this their last summer in…
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Terence Blanchard’s ‘Champion: An Opera in Jazz’ the story of a queer man in a macho world
Terence Blanchard’s Champion: An Opera in Jazz (2013) tells the real-life story of world champion boxer Emile Griffith, a man haunted by memories of his past who struggled to reconcile his sexuality in a hyper-macho world. This groundbreaking work combining the disciplines of opera and jazz, was co-commissioned by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in…
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LOVE SONGS @ Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
If you are heading off to France to celebrate President Macron’s re-election, then Queerguru’s Paris Correspondent Richard Gilles says to be sure to also check out Love Songs at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Taking Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) as its starting point, Love Songs, this new, poetically-charged exhibition is…
