David Allen
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews BERNSTEIN’S WALL the story of the music Maestro
I was introduced to Leonard Bernstein’s work in my mid-20’s (a while ago now) when a friend gave me an ‘Essential Bernstein’ CD; I’d only ever seen snippets of ‘West Side Story’ up to that point. It was a CD I listened to often at the time and continue to now when the mood takes…
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Queerguru’s David Allen falls in love with Wales (again) reviewing ‘ON THE SEA’ at BFI Flare
With the outstanding ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’ being the only other queer drama I can think to be set in my Welsh homeland, it’s a pleasure to see more from there in writer/director Helen Walsh’s ‘On the Sea’. Set near the Menai Straits in North Wales, this is a different environment to that of ‘Lost…
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Queerguru’s (newest) Contributing Editor DAVID ALLEN rallies to the message of hope in ‘ADAM’S APPLE’
In a time where the loudest voices offering up their opinions and making decisions about trans people aren’t trans themselves, Adam Sieswerda, with his mother Amy Jenkins, provides a voice we need to be listening to in the documentary ADAM’S APPLE. Amy is an accomplished artist who has been visually documenting her life since her…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews Caroline Litman’s memoir ‘HER NAME IS ALICE’ on how ‘the system failed’ her trans daughter
On the 26th May 2022, Caroline Litman received news that no parent should have to hear, news that would change everything: her youngest daughter had died by suicide. Alice was 20, and by that time had waited almost three years to get an appointment at a gender identity clinic. Caroline channelled her grief and wrote…
