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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Maspalomas, an interesting character study about what happens when an older man goes back into the closet.
Vicente (Jose Ramon Soroiz) is having the time of his life. Newly single after a twenty-five-year relationship, the penniless seventy-five-year-old gay man has moved to Maspalomas, staying with a friend in the hedonistic queer enclave in Gran Canaria, Spain. There, by day he hangs out on the beach and cruises in the dunes, and at…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah visits London’s long-awaited V & A East Storehouse museum with its radical reinvention of the whole museum experience.
London’s long-awaited V & A East Storehouse museum is finally open, a stone’s throw from vibrant Hackney Wick, and, it’s safe to say, it’s been worth the wait. The younger, cooler sibling to the esteemed Victoria & Albert museum in South Kensington, the V & A East Storehouse is a radical reinvention of the museum…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘WE ARE FAHEEM AND KARUN’ the first ever Kashmiri queer film screening at BFI FLARE, London
Karun (Akash Unnimenon), a handsome young security officer from Kerala, is stationed in a remote village in Kashmir. One day he meets Faheem (Tawseef Mir), a charming, equally attractive, student returning from college to visit his family, who stops his motorbike at Karun’s checkpoint. The two men fleetingly lock their beautiful eyes, before parting company.…
