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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘THE BEST FRIEND’ a colourful Brazilian film about queer relationships. @ Miami’s fabulous Outshine Film Festival.
Long-term romantic relationships elude many these days. Many of the reasons for this, financial and societal, are beyond our control. Other reasons we can, however, control, a main one being a lack of satisfaction with your present options for long-term love, and the wait for ‘the one’, the perfect person. Can we have it all?…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘CECIL BEATON’S FASHIONABLE WORLD’, a retrospective of the legendary Vogue photographer, artist, costume designer and illustrator.
Glamour and queerness have long been interesting bedfellows. One of the pioneers of such fabulousness was Sir Cecil Beaton, the iconic British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer, and costume and set designer. This autumn, the multiple Academy and Tony award-winning talent is being honoured by London’s National Portrait Gallery with a…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews SKIFF a coming of age story from Belgian flmmaker Cecilia Verheyden
This is the fictional story of teenager Malou (Femke Vanhove), her personal struggles, body issues, and the relationship with her immediate family in Willebroek, Antwerp province, Belgium. Malou is into water sports, and she may be a rowing competitor in the coming Olympic Games, meanwhile sport teammates gossip about Malou not showering again, and they…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘NIGERIAN MODERNISM’ an excellent show about the development of modern art in Nigeria @ London’s Tate Modern
Nigerian Modernism is a new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern gallery. Tracing the development of modern art in Nigeria, the show spans a period from the 1920s to the 1990s. This was a time of huge political and social change in Nigeria as the country went from indirect colonial rule through to independence, civil war…
