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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm enoys a sunny but sad day visting the UK AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT on display in Glasgow, Scotland
While crowds file past the Bayeux Tapestry in London, in Glasgow this is the last weekend that the full UK AIDS Memorial Quilt is on display at the commanding and capacious Tramway Arts Centre. Consisting of 336 panels commemorating the lives of more than 600 people lost to HIV and AIDS, each 3ft x 6ft…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews Leo Woodall’S star turn with Dustin Hoffman in ‘TUNER ‘
The last time I saw Leo Woodall in anything, he was providing ‘services’ for his gay ‘uncle’ in the second season of ‘The White Lotus’ (that’s as queer-adjacent as this review gets, by the way). In director Daniel Roher’s ‘Tuner’, Leo plays Niki White, a piano tuner and apprentice to the increasingly frail and foggy-minded…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Jerker’, a powerful play from mid-1980s San Francisco @ London´s Waterloo East Theatre.
Jerker takes us to mid-1980s San Francisco, a fraught time for the city when it was being torn apart by the AIDS crisis, a time when there was little knowledge about, or treatment for, the disease. Robert Chelsey´s 1986 play was first performed 40 years ago, in San Francisco, and remains as powerful, fearful, sexy,…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews Vaishali Sinha’s eye-opening ‘GIVE IT A SHOT’ Doc that follows a global race to develop a new male contraceptive
This documentary refers to a reversible male contraceptive announced as “the first breakthrough since the modern condom was invented 200 years ago” Directed by Vaishali Sinha, the film does justice to Dr. Sujoy Guha in his admirable quest for humanity. This scientist, for decades, has developed in India the so-called RISUG, a reversible male contraceptive…
