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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘The 90s: Art & Fashion’ curated by Edward Enninful, now on at London´s Tate Britain.
Oh, where to begin with a review of The 90s: Art and Fashion, the show opening at London´s Tate Britain gallery tomorrow? Well, firstly, if you’re reading this, congratulations, you are likely to have survived one of the most hedonistic decades in human history. A creative, spirited, affordable decade without boundaries; however, largely without effective…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm enoys a sunny but sad day visting the UK AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT on display in Glasgow, Scotland
While crowds file past the Bayeux Tapestry in London, in Glasgow this is the last weekend that the full UK AIDS Memorial Quilt is on display at the commanding and capacious Tramway Arts Centre. Consisting of 336 panels commemorating the lives of more than 600 people lost to HIV and AIDS, each 3ft x 6ft…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews Leo Woodall’S star turn with Dustin Hoffman in ‘TUNER ‘
The last time I saw Leo Woodall in anything, he was providing ‘services’ for his gay ‘uncle’ in the second season of ‘The White Lotus’ (that’s as queer-adjacent as this review gets, by the way). In director Daniel Roher’s ‘Tuner’, Leo plays Niki White, a piano tuner and apprentice to the increasingly frail and foggy-minded…
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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,…
