documentary
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‘Keyboard Fantasies’ the story of the re-emergence of Canadian trans musical genius Beverley Glenn-Copeland
For all you QUEERGURU peeps in Canada, there is a real treat coming your way that will have you making tracks to Montreal. To the city’s BBRAM! Gallery where they are hosting a premiere of the award-winning documentary, Keyboard Fantasies on their giant 12ft x 9ft screen. The film by Posy Dixon tells the…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews STUDIO ONE FOREVER the story of the infamous LA gay club with a racist/sexist door policy
Studio One Forever is a documentary about the infamous Studio One nightclub in West Hollywood, known for its racist and sexist door policies as much as anything else. Launched in 1974, the club ran for 19 years until 1993. Why Studio One decided to have racist and sexist door policies is not made…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LOVE JAMIE profiling the life and work of incarcerated 64-year-old Mexican-American trans-woman artist Jamie Diaz,
Love Jamie is a heartfelt documentary short, profiling the life and work of incarcerated 64-year-old Mexican-American trans-woman artist Jamie Diaz, and her close relationship with pen-pal Gabriel Joffe. We follow the pair as they prepare for Diaz’s first solo art exhibition, ‘Even Flowers Bleed’ shown at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York.…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WHAM! an affectionate profile of one of the most successful pop acts of the 1980s.
The UK at the beginning of the 1980s was a highly-charged environment. Thatcher’s brutal economic policies, high youth unemployment, the urban riots of the summer of 1981, and very politicized new wave and Two-Tone music scenes fuelled a tense atmosphere. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were best friends, having met at school in 1975…
