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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews ‘HERE COMES J EDGAR’ a new musical starring BRYAN BATT
Many of us outside the United States will have heard of J. Edgar Hoover and his role as head of the FBI, but few of us know much more than that. Hoover was the longest-serving director of the FBI and for those 37 years, he worked with presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’, a brilliant documentary by Jeffrey Schwarz about the controversy around the cult 1980 queer film Cruising.
We can always trust director Jeffrey Schwarz to deliver compelling documentaries about queer social history. The maker of I Am Divine, Tab Hunter Confidential, The Fabulous Allan Carr, Boulevard! A Hollywood Story and Vito is back with Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, the story of the controversy around the making of the 1980 queer cult-classic film…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews ‘DOWN THE HATCH’ a night of queer comedy at Brighton’s KOMEDIA Club
Much like Provincetown Mass, Brighton in the UK has a larger-than-average queer population, so it makes sense that we would have a comedy night hosted by, performed by, and in front of a crowd that is predominantly queer. Up until 2023, our comedy night at Komedia was known as ‘Bent Double’, run and emceed by…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Frida: The Making of an Icon’, a detailed study of the legendary artist, Frida Kahlo.
Putting on a show of Frida Kahlo´s work in a large gallery space is never going to be easy. The legendary artist only ever created about 200 works of art, mainly small or medium-sized, most of which are in the hands of private collectors or museums unwilling to lend them for shows. The public,…
