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Queerguru’s David Allen’s 5 Star review of ‘TEST’ screening at Provincetown Film Festival + SF’s Frameline
Few movies set the scene with such succinct clarity as ‘Test’ from writer (and lead) Brock Yurich and director Sam McConnell. Here, we watch as a handsome and very muscled man, wearing nothing but a cock sock, is rollered in fake tan by an older woman while singing a hymn and giggling. Eddie (Brock Yurich)…
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Queerguru’s Janet Prolman reviews BARRY WALTERS : MIGHTY REAL A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000
You owe it to yourself to read this fabulous book or listen to the audiobook. Over 40 years in the making, Barry Walters’ compendium of the popular music essential to the LGBTQ community has at last been published and released. The title aptly mirrors the name of Sylvester’s queer anthem “You Make Me Feel (Mighty…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews FLESH AND FUEL (Du fioul dans les artéres) @ Cannes Film Festival
A study on loneliness and longing directed by Pierre Le Gall Etienne (Alexis Manenti) is a French container truck driver, and he moves through Europe in daily long shifts. His job is a demanding one on the road, the truck is his shelter also, sometimes he even cleans himself on board. By night,…
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Queerguru’s Scotland Contributing Editor Robert Malcolm reviews Richard Gadd’s new TV series ‘HALF MAN ‘
I have to admit that I approached Richard Gadd’s new BBC and HBO series, Half Man, with some reservations. The violent working-class Scotsman is a trope that is too familiar and reinforces a national stereotype that the country can well do without. I was also concerned that this tale is told by Gadd, a middle-class…
