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Queerguru reviews ‘HOW TO TELL A SECRET’ how millennials deal with HIV in a contemporary Ireland
Over the past few years, QUEERGURU has sat through and reviewed 40 feature films that touch on HIV and/or AIDS. The pandemic of the 1980s and 1990s totally devastated the LGBTQ+ community and became the single largest factor in reshaping our future. As a queer media that prides itself in its mission to ensure…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews the re-released ‘Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul)’ a landmark transgender film from 1983
The opening nighttime scene presents people walking at Jorge Manrique Street in Madrid, and for a moment you may recall Rome and Federico Fellini´s masterpiece Nights of Cabiria, but in a matter of seconds, the women in fur coats scream and run away quickly, the police is coming for them in a raid against…
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Run For More : the compelling documentary about a charismatic Texan transgender woman and her fight ‘for a seat at the table’
So many of us in the LGBTQ+ community have such traumatic experiences when we ‘come out’ that it can have such an adverse effect on our future behavior in society. Even more for those that are the ‘T’ part of the equation. However not so for Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe a transgender woman in Texas who…
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Love Goddess : The Rita Hayworth Musical …. reviewed by Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden
Love Goddess: The Rita Hayworth Musical★★★ The Cockpit Theatre, London Rita Hayworth was the biggest female star of the 1940s, born Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino, she had 5 husbands, made 61 movies, and (thank you Lord) inspired the creation of the margarita. That in itself is worthy of the word legendary. Making a show…
