2024
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SUNFLOWER a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama from Australia
Australia’s rough, macho culture is examined from a queer perspective in Sunflower, a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama set in the suburbs of Melbourne. Director/writer Gabriel Carrubba’s debut introduces us to Leo (Liam Mollica), a handsome, strapping seventeen-year-old high school student. His home is a working-class Greek-Italian household with his truck driver dad (Sal Galofaro), mum…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ‘The Lost Boys (Le Paradis)’ where to fall in love is against the rules
A sequence of still images of a place that seems to be a mansion into the woods introduces us to lonely Joe (Khalil Gharbia) wearing a red t-shirt. After a while we learn the residence is a juvenile reform center. Joe has Arab roots and shards of memories with his mother walking on a…
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Queerguru Opinion Piece : Is Scotland about to Turn The Clock back on LGBTQ+ rights?
To an outsider the British Parliamentary system may seem a tad arcane especially since it devolved some (limited) powers to the four countries that make up the UK. One of these being Scotland and in the 1920s it witnessed the startof a political movement that wanted independence for Scotland. This in time …
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In Spain, an ex gay porn star can get Elected Mayor ….. as long as they are not too conservative!
Whilst here is the US we are (still) debating the fact that we have a porn-star-affeciando grasping his way for his (unlikely?) return to the White House, we think instead we should adopt what some Spanish Town has done. I.E. elect an actual gay (ex) Porn Star to be in charge . The…
