2022
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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…
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Queerguru’s Janet Prolman reviews ‘A Peloton of One’ a bike with a purpose
“A Peloton of One” is a new documentary about surviving and healing from childhood sexual abuse, and it is both powerfully moving and enraging. The film centers on a heterosexual male survivor, Dave Ohlmuller, who was abused at age twelve by a priest at his family’s church. Dave is resistant to psychotherapy but has…
