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Academy Award Nominee COLMAN DOMINGO set to star in movies as Nat King Cole plus Joe Jackson
Colman Domingo the first gay black actor nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor has a busy road ahead. His nomination was for his performance as Bayard Rustin (in Rustin) who was a leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Now he has announced that he is to…
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Queerguru’s James Judd gets totally captivated with Bradley Cooper et al in MAESTRO
Leonard Bernstein was highly influential in American cultural life. As the composer of musicals, operas, ballets, and film scores including West Side Story, Candide, On the Town, he lived at the center of popular culture. He was also bisexual, horny, studly, and married with children but engaged with male lovers in a…
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BBC Scotland’s Clò Mòr is the first Gaelic drama to feature a romantic same-sex storyline in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides,
The Spanish are streets ahead when it comes to producing culture in Catalan, the official regional language of Andorra, and the official language of two autonomous communities in eastern Spain (think queer TV series Merli). Now it’s the Scots who are stepping up to the plate with a remarkable new drama produced in Gaelic…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah checks out The Glory presenting a new take on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
This month, London’s best queer cabaret venue, The Glory, hosts a unique adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Created and directed by award-winning director Robert Chevara,, the play stars four of London’s most fabulous queer talents, Alan Turkington as Antony, Johnny Woo as Cleopatra, Alexis Gregory as Charmain and Jonathan Blake as Dolabella.…