drama
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND where the kids are not alright
THE KIDS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT… In this feature film debut from Trevor Anderson, the highlight is the performance of newcomer Vaughan Murrae as Robin, in a nonbinary lead role. They play an American child that arrives in Edmonton, Canada to live with their smoker father. It is 1987, at school, Robin´s classmates…
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Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty
Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley. The two-character play traces the relationship that develops between a disabled Vietnam veteran, J.…
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The Princess, the patient, and the handshake that changed the face of AIDS
Bren Gosling‘s play MOMENT OF GRACE captures a very significant moment that created such a seachange when Diana, Princess of Wales shook the hands of an AIDS patient in a London Hospice back in 1987. Bren Gosling talks about his play…. now at The Hope Theatre in London …. with QUEERGURU and how this one single…
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The princess, the patient and the handshake that changed the face of AIDS
Queer Brit award-winning writer Bren Gosling latest play MOMENT OF GRACE tells the story of the famous visit by Diana Princess of Wales to Britain’s first AIDS Unit and its impact on three people: Andrew, a patient, Jude, a nurse, and Donnie, a fireman estranged from his son. AIDS was taboo. Even being seen…
