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‘FROM THE HEART TO THE HANDS : DOLCE & GABANNA : possibly the best Fashion Exhibition we have seen in Years!
One of the reasons QUEERGURU first settled in Miami almost 30 years ago was the warm and welcoming queer community and how, like the town in general, it welcomed a really diverse crowd. Just like our hometown, London. (Except for the sheer absence of sun.) Our timing was perfect as it was the same year…
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Queerguru reviews ‘MOLLY’ a short queer romance from Brit filmmaker Darius Shu
Queerguru first came across Brit queer filmmaker Darius Shu back in 2017 when he deservedly won the prestigious Iris Prize for his short movie Queer Parivaar. He’s not just been very busy since then, but extremely successful, as he now has some 26 Awards for the whole body of his work (plus lest we forget,…
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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…
