interview
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THE FABULOUS LYPSINKA SHOW back in London after 16 year absence
John Epperson aka LYPSINKA is a NY based drag performer who has been delighting audiences around the globe for the past 40 years. This Goddess of Show Business lip-synchs to meticulously edited, show-length soundtracks culled from snippets of outrageous 20th-century female performances in movies and song. It’s unashamedly old-fashioned entertainment that has kept the…
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PEACHES CHRIST says she is NOT Mink Stole’s daughter as they sail off to London together
Joshua Grannell is better known as Peaches Christ a multi-talented underground drag performer, writer, actor, filmmaker who has become a major force in San Francisco’s alternative nightlife. With an irrepressible; sense of humor and a real passion for his work, he makes for a totally charming interview as QUEERGURU discovered when we tracked him down…
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Levan Akin on AND THEN WE DANCED
When Swedish/Georgian Filmmaker Levan Akin‘s queer romance And Then We Danced premiered at Cannes Film Festival it received a 10 min standing ovation : since then it has picked up numerous Awards around the globe. was Sweden’s Official Submission for the Acadamy Awards and has just played at Sundance Film Festival. Now on the eve of its release in the US…
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Queer auteur JOSEPH WILSON talks about IL WIDNA his dystopian take on Thatcher’s Anti-LGBTQ Laws
In 1988 Margaret Thatcher introduced a hate-filled anti-LGBTQ Law called CLAUSE 28 which was to effectively ban the promotion of homosexuality. Even now some 30 years later it’s left a bitter memory within the LGBTQ Community for its sheer pernisciousness. Brit filmmaker Joseph Wilson‘ talks to QUEERGURU about his short dystopian film that follows…
