2021
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Armistead Maupin’s Tales of The City Musical : now streaming online
Armistead Maupin’s beloved Tales Of The City started out as a newspaper column over 40 years ago. They morphed into 9 novels, two television mini-series, and then in 2011 into a musical. With a score by Jake Shears (the lead singer of Scissor Sisters, and John “JJ” Garden, and book by Tony Award winner…
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Frock The World: Vol. 2, Fuelling Fantasy. Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp says ‘Enter If You Dare’
The brainchild of creative director and photographer,Eli Schmidt, Frock the World is a high-end publication devoted to providing an uncensored space for queer culture. The name’s potentially misleading, given that there’s virtually nothing about frocks, After Volume One (Physical Sensation), this second issue is dedicated to fantasy because, as Schmidt says, “after a long…
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Nora Burns powerful DAVID’S FRIEND is brought to the big screen by Ebersole Hughes
Nora Burns’s powerful and passionate performance piece DAVID’s FRIEND the story of the best friend who died from AIDS has been filmed by The Ebersole Hughes Company and is being screened at Provincetown Film Society & Festival Co-starring Billy Hough & directed by Adrienne Truscott. QUEERGURU sat down to talk with Nora and the filmmakers on the eve…
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Perfume de Gardenias : a delicious black comedy about funerals
Whether this post-pandemic time is suitable for this rather wonderful black comedy that takes aim at the hypocrisy of funerals, seemed irrelevant. This deliciously funny satire is after all the work of Macha Colón, a character created by the artist Gisela Rosario Ramos and inspired by the iconic actor and drag queen Divine. In…
