2025
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Manchester UK launches the inaugural TRUE PRIDE an exclusively queer-curated Pride festival of performance, film and community,
The list of Gay Prides that are being cancelled in the US this year due to the political sheganains and undisguised homophobia of some state administrations keeps growing. Only this week, DeSantis in Florida signed a Bill prohibiting public money from being spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The law bars preferential treatment…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ’10s ACROSS THE BORDERS’ documentary about the ballroom scenes in The Phillipines & Thailand
New York’s legendary ballroom scene continues to make an impact around the world. Ball culture was famously immortalised in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, which examined the mid-to-late 80s African-American, LatinX, queer, and trans-led scene, which was founded by Crystal LaBeija in 1968. Madonna then came calling with Vogue, and more recently, Ryan Murphy’s 2018 drama…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘THE LIBRARIANS’ on the scary rise of rampant book censorship from the Far Right
N.B. We are re-releasing Jose Mayogas review of Kim A Snyder’s excellent doc as it currently streaming FREE on PBS Indepenednt Lens It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury The documentary feature directed by Kim A. Snyder…
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”F*CK IT A Live Gay Dating Show with JESSICA KIRSON
The Boyfriend, a Japanese gay Dating Show TV series on Netflix, is back for a second season. It is probably the most earnest and puritanical approach to finding a partner or love interest we have ever seen. It matters not how cute or well-qualified, it’s just never going to happen. No one is that…
