20206
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Sir Patrick Stewart : one of the queer community’s greatest allies: dies aged 86
As we become more immersed in our queer sensibility and life, we quickly learn not just about our own community but about who our allies are, too. This week we lost one of our finest. Many talk the talk, but very few walk the walk so well as the legendary British actor Sir Patrick Stewart,…
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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE MOVIES @ GAZE : Dublin’s International LGBTQA+ Film Festival
If you are a regular reader of QUEERGURU, you will know that Ireland is never far from our thoughts or from our pages. Last week we shared the news about Cork getting the country’s first permanent LGBTQIA+ Exhibition. Today we revisit the GAZE International LGBT Film Festival, which takes place in Dublin, Ireland, annually since 1992, and…
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Queergruru’s Peter Herbert reviews. WHAM! 10 DAYS IN CHINA.
A refreshing new documentary manages to reframe the origins of one of the music world’s superstars through extensive restored visual and audio material. The result is closer to a visual essay along the lines of the Maysles Bros’ 1970 Rolling Stone film Gimme Shelter and is a credit to director Mike Christie, who intercuts original…
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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE MOVIES @ SCENE Manchester UK’s LGBTQA+ Film Festival
The city of Manchester in the north of the UK has turned up twice in our in-tray today. Firstly its ex Mayor just became the 7th person in the past decade to be the country’s new PM. As he was ‘kissing hands’ with HM The King (a very traditional British custom that isn’t the slightest…
