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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews SOUL OF THE DESERT / Alma del desierto : the struggle for recognition within an indigenous community
Set in Uribia, the indigenous capital of Colombia, and filmed on location at La Guajira, Northern región of the country, the film introduces us to the Wayúu community with its own wayuunaiki language, and to a minimalistic landscape where the colors of sand and flames mix with the pink of flock of flamingos, midgnight blue skies, the sound of…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE a musical about the iconic drag troupe THE COCKETTES
Midnight at The Palace. ***** Edinburgh Festival Fringe “Midnight at the Palace” is a raucous, psychedelic, sparkling musical about the queer hippy drag troupe, the Cockettes, who performed in San Francisco in the early seventies. They may not be well known (in the UK) but their wild, gender-bending, counter-cultural anarchy affected many who came later,…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm’s rave review of TOM AT THE FARM @ Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Tom at the Farm ***** Edinburgh Festival Fringe This powerful tour de force of physical theatre unfolds like a homophobic horror story. You can’t fail to be moved by its emotional intensity and raw beauty. Written by Michel Marc Bouchard and first presented in Montreal in 2011, this version in Portuguese is skilfully directed…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘I WAS BORN THIS WAY’ on the life and legacy of Carl Bean
‘ Loving people that are different from us is the only way forward Lady Gaga A documentary by Daniel Jungle and Sam Pollard on the life and legacy of Carl Bean (1944-2021). Through an engaging rotoscope animation, footage, vintage photographs, interviews with music legends such as Lady Gaga, Dionne Warwick, Estelle Brown, Questlove, Iris Gordy…
