2021
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Elska Magazine discovers how very friendly the men of Dublin are
Queerguru knew that it would take more than a Global Lockdown to stop Liam Campbell the intrepid Editor of ELSKA to stop producing his queer photo zine. So in a brief lull last Summer he took a trip to Dublin, which we have always considered one of THE most friendly Capital cities. Irish men…
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Queerguru’s Curated Curios ………. and News 4/6
Four Years Before Stonewall, ‘The Gay Cookbook’ Showed a Never-Before-Seen Side of Homosexual Life : In 1965, four years before the Stonewall Uprising, a man named Lou Rand Hogan published The Gay Cookbook, a 280-page book “for that very special man in your life or for the jaded hostess whose soufflés no longer stand on their own.” https://bit.ly/3dE21xB…
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Josh O’Connor plays Romeo for real
The word from the UK is that the National Theatre’s very first film is something of a smash hit. In its 5-star review, The Guardian called this Romeo and Juliet ‘an ingenious triumph”. This production of Shakespeare’s classic love story was created solely for the screen and it was shot on a single stage, over…
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Oliver Hermanus talks about MOFFIE his excellent harrowing coming-of-age drama
The fact that ‘moffie’ is the South African equivalent of ‘faggot’ sets the tone for one of the most harrowing coming-of-age films we have ever seen. It is set in South Africa in 1981 in apartheid where the white minority still dominates and persecutes the ‘colored’ population. They however are not the enemy in this…
