Chicago
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Cameron Raasdal-Munro and Rikki Beadle-Blair talk about the American Premiere of their very gritty queer drama GANGSTA BABY
Excellent new queer theatre is alive and well, thanks to the likes of RIKKI BEADLE-BLAIR MBE, British actor, director, and playwright, who is also the artistic director of multi-media production company Team Angelica. Yet it is his role as a mentor where he nurtures the next generation of queer theatrical talent that he comes into…
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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS of MUST SEE MOVIES @ Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
Its the 43rd Anniversary of Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, the second longest-running film festival of its kind…… and one of Queerguru’ s favorites. Is program is always very diverse and it showcases the very best queer cinema across the entire LGBTQA+ spectrum From award-winning international feature films to social documentaries to experimental…
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The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen opens in Chicago
The people of Chicago are in for a real theatrical treat as this is the next stop for creator/storyteller Les Kurkendaal-Barrett is bringing his one-man show The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen. We will confess that we had not heard of William Dorsey Swann, who was not just a leading…
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The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939 @ Wrightwood 659, Chicago
If you share QUEERGURU;s passion for queer history then in the next month you really should make tracks to WRIGHTWOOD 659 in Chicago to see their exhibit The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939. It examines for the first time the fascinating history of how homosexuals were cleaved from the rest of…
