2021
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CURED : the story of the LGBTQ activists who fought back against American Psychiatry : reviewed by Queerguru’s Ris Fatah
“Cured” is a must-see. An award-winning documentary that takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBTQ+ equality: the very influential American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. Early US gay rights activist groups – such as the…
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Queerguru’s pick of MUST SEE FILMS at OUTshine Film Fest in Fort Lauderdale
OUTshine Film Festival is about to kick off its second Fest of 2021 : the Fall is the time for Fort Lauderdale to be front and center. It may be the ‘younger sister’ of the Miami Beach Event each spring but as they share the same management and excellent programming team it has gained…
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For their latest edition ELSKA the queer photography zine goes Down South
For the latest issue of ELSKA the entertaining queer photographic zine, its chief photographer and editor-in-chief Liam Campbell headed South to Georgia’s capital city. He told Queerguru that he had chosen Atlanta in part as it has been dominating the news over the past couple of years. Campbell wanted this issue to take advantage of…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews SPENCER ‘a fable from a true tragedy’ at London Film Festival
It’s 7.30 am and a line stretching three blocks is already forming for Spencer, directed by Pablo Larrain, one of the movies with buzz at this year’s London Film Festival. Starring Kristen Stewart it is a “fable from a true tragedy” that captures the life of Princess Diana over a three-day period. Just as it…
