2025
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘I WAS BORN THIS WAY’ on the life and legacy of Carl Bean
‘ Loving people that are different from us is the only way forward Lady Gaga A documentary by Daniel Jungle and Sam Pollard on the life and legacy of Carl Bean (1944-2021). Through an engaging rotoscope animation, footage, vintage photographs, interviews with music legends such as Lady Gaga, Dionne Warwick, Estelle Brown, Questlove, Iris Gordy…
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Queerguru previews FAIRYLAND ‘possibly the best queer film of the year’ in movie theaters October 10th
It’s been two years since Andrew Durham’s debut feature film, FAIRYLAND, played at the Provincetown Film Festival and was the unanimous winner of the Audience Award. NOW Lionsgate and Willa are finally giving this extraordinary, wonderful movie a theatrical release, and we should tell you it is really worth the wait. The story is based…
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First look at Ira Sach’s new biopic of legendary queer photographer PETER HUJAR starring Ben Wishaw
Queerguru hopes that the extraordinary queer photographer PETER HUJAR is looking down from wherever he is now, as his work received only marginal public recognition during his lifetime, but he has since been recognized as a major American photographer of the 1970s and 80s. He was an influential artist-activist of the gay liberation movement; in 1969, with…
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An Evening with Jock Soto : a celebration of the life and art of the legendary groundbreaking dancer
It’s been 20 years since Jock Soto, a Principal Dancer at The New York City Ballet gave his farewell performance in a program that featured ballets by five different choreographers: including “Dance at the Gym” from Jerome Robbins‘ West Side Story Suite, Soto was a trailblazing Diné (Navajo)-Puerto Rican artist, born and raised in New Mexico…
