2024
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ONE NIGHT ONLY : Thirsty Through The Years : as unique event for an extraordinary person
One of the (many) reasons that Queerguru loves its summer base in Provincetown, is its genuine sense of support for its own. One of them who really needs that now is Thirsty Burlington (aka Scott Townsend) who is Drag Royalty in this queer mecca on the tip of Cape Cod. Since 1991 Thirsty…
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After 20 years BOY GEORGE is back on Broadway : and this time the Show is an unqualified Hit
Boy George is back on Broadway after 20 years since his (less than successful) debut. Back then he was starring as Leigh Bowery in Taboo the partly imagined story that he had written of a group of club ‘names’ set in the location of what was London’s most fashionable nightclub. The club had…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah previews the return of the smash hit FRANK’S CLOSET about to open In London’s Union Theatre
Frank’s Closet, the off-West End cult stage hit of 2009 is back! Staged at Hoxton Hall, one of England’s last remaining Victorian music halls, it sold out to packed houses and glowing reviews. Now it is to get its first London revival at the Union Theatre, Bankside, SE1, with additional new material by…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BARRIO BOY : coming out gay in the macho Puerto Rican ‘hood’ in Brooklyn
Handsome, Brooklyn-born-and-bred, Quique (Dennis Garcia) runs a local barber’s shop, Fade to Famous, with his cousin Rafa (Pierre Jean Gonzalez). They are ingrained into their local Puerto Rican community, a community as nourishing as it is stifling. It’s a very traditional, macho world and this is an issue for Quique who is secretly gay and has…
