2023
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RAINBOW RISHTA : an unfiltered look at the lives, aspirations, and desires of the people from the fledging Indian LGBTQIA+ community.
India is another of those countries that were once part of the British Empire and even after the Brits left and India became a republic they left behind some of the puritanical Laws they had enacted during the Victorian era. One of these in 1861 made male homosexuality illegal and it remained on the…
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New PBS Doc ‘THE WAR ON DISCO’ investigates the late 1970s when angry homophobes and racists tried to stop the music….
For most of us (of a certain age) our passion for everything disco peaked in 1977 with John Travolta’s swagger in the opening scenes of Saturday Night Fever. The film resulted in the Best Actor Oscar Nomination for Travolta but for the rest of the world, it shepherded in a whole new movement…
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Kiki & Herb – O Come Let Us Adore Them
This is ALL we want for Christmas. Kiki and Herb are coming out of retirement (yet again) this Festive season for a mini-tour and we cannot wait. This legendary cabaret duo consists of Kiki DuRane, an aging, alcoholic, female lounge singer with her gay, male piano accompanist, known only as “Herb.“ Now…
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International Opera singer LUCIA LUCAS talks about the World Premiere LiLI Elba the Danish painter and trans woman
Queerguru first came across the international baritone Opera singer Lucia Lucas two years ago after viewing The Sound Of Identity one of the most uplifting LGBTQ+ documentaries we had seen for a very long time. It’s the story of how Tobias Picker a remarkable queer composer and also a forward-thinking Artistic Director of Tulsa…
