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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Jerker’, a powerful play from mid-1980s San Francisco @ London´s Waterloo East Theatre.
Jerker takes us to mid-1980s San Francisco, a fraught time for the city when it was being torn apart by the AIDS crisis, a time when there was little knowledge about, or treatment for, the disease. Robert Chelsey´s 1986 play was first performed 40 years ago, in San Francisco, and remains as powerful, fearful, sexy,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SAVAGE, an intense drama about conversion therapy, now on at London’s White Bear Theatre.
SAVAGE White Bear Theatre, London Gay Conversion Therapy shockingly remains legal in around 170 countries, including the USA and the UK. Savage, a play written by Claudio Macor, examines a particularly horrifying period in the history of conversion therapy, namely that carried out by the Nazis during World War Two. On at London’s cute White…
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The BBC’s First Homosexual : when being queer in the UK was illegal and in the closet
It’s probably tough for Gen Z and gay Millennials to even imagine a time when everywhere in the world it was not only illegal to be gay, but also socially and morally unacceptable. Like in the UK in 1954, one year after a very young Queen Elizabeth just ascended to the throne, when the country’s…
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Michael Wynne talks about CLIVE the 6’5″ cactus and (co) star of a new queer play opening in London
The Olivier and BAFTA Brit award-winning queer writer MICHAEL WYNNE has a new play that is opening in London this week. CLIVE is a deliciously dark comic story about Thomas, a single gay man who works alone at home. Well, not totally alone as there is his best friend and loyal confidant Clive, who is…
