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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘BLUE BOY TRIAL’ the heartfelt story of the landmark 1960’s Japanese trans rights court case
Queer life in 1960´s Japan isn’t mentioned very often, even though by the mid-1960s there were about fifty gay bars in Tokyo, albeit largely discreet and low profile. Tokyo´s current queer neighbourhood of Shinjuku Ni-Chome was already a thing by then. Trans lives were also becoming easier, in part due to the pioneering gender-affirming surgery…
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Queerguru’s (very own Welshman) David Allen reviews MADFABULOUS screening at OUTshine Film Festival
We’re back to Wales, North Wales, the island of Anglesey to be precise, but now we’re in the late 19th century at a time when ‘Oscar Wilde rots in Reading gaol’. ‘Madfabulous’ from director Celyn Jones (who incidentally played the truculent brother in the newly released ‘On the Sea’) and writer Lisa Baker (in her…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LONE STAR BULL a dramatic thriller starring Luke MacFarlane
Queer human rights are never earned permanently. They are always under threat of attack from wrong ´uns, never more so than right now with the various right-wing fanatic governments around the world, including Trump’s Republican Party. Sometimes it feels as though we are heading back to the homophobic 1980s Reagan era. This makes director…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘SMOKE’ a thought provoking play by/starring Alexis Gregory
Smoke is the latest play by London-based actor-playwright Alexis Gregory (Riot Act). Directed by Campbell X (Stud Life, Low Rider), Smoke is a brutal monologue that observes the psychotic downward spiral that can occur when recreational drug use and mental health get out of hand. Forty-four year old Alex (Gregory) wakes up one morning to…
