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Out and About! Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute, London
Bishopsgate Institute stages a take-over of The Curve with an archive installation of objects, ephemera, and media highlighting 40 moments and stories in London’s LGBTQ+ history. Bishopsgate Institute has been collecting the lived experiences of everyday people for over a century, and their unique special collections and archives present the stories of individuals, collectives…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “AS WE LIKE IT” a Taiwanese adaptation of Shakespeare with an all-female cast
Love flourishes no matter what in William Shakespeare´s As You Like It, a pastoral comedy from the early XVI Century. The play has been updated in a whimsical film with an entirely female cast and a kitsch touch. The directors dedicate their film to Shakespeare and to the patriarchy who would not allow female…
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Queer Words with Jonathan Kemp : an online-course to hone your writing skills
Join award-winning writer Jonathan Kemp (who also happens to be one of Queerguru’s London Based Contributing Editors) on this asynchronous online ‘Slack’ course to consider what it means to tell our queer stories and how we might go about it. Generate ideas and stories through a combination of writing exercises and readings/discussions. For beginners and…
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Open Dialogues : Stories From The LGBTQ Community
This powerful wee documentary is exactly what most queer people would have loved to been able to view on the verge of ‘coming out’ as gay. Listening to the stories of seven South Florida members of the LGBTQ community articulate on their own journeys is such an uplifting experience. Hearing their individual stories of…
