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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews David Pevsner’s ‘very steamy’ ‘DAMN SHAME – A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes’
David Pevsner’s book Damn Shame – A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes is exactly that. We join him on a conversational romp through New York and LA’s theatrical, gay sex and activism worlds from the 1980s to the present day. Born in 1958 into a middle-class Jewish family in suburban Chicago, Pevsner grew…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LIKE ME an Israeli coming-of-age film by Eyal Kantor
Tom (up-and-coming Israeli actor Yoav Keren) is a handsome, quick-witted gay eighteen-year-old man in Tel Aviv who knows what he wants. By day he is a theatre studies student and by night a pizza delivery boy, Tom is grasping life, opportunities, and men as they occur. His best friend Gilad (Mendi Barsheshet) is a…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WHO I AM NOT : breaking the intersex taboo
Who I Am Not is a fascinating documentary chronicling the lives of two engaging, very different, black intersex people; South African ex-beauty queen Sharon-Rose, and unemployed fellow South African, Dimakatso, both of whom live in Johannesburg. Intersex people are people born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ‘CANDY GIGI Friday Night Sinner’ …. in which NOTHING is off-limits
Candy Gigi Friday Night Sinner★★★★ Soho Theatre London There are some things that only a woman can say about being a woman. There are some things that only a Jewish person can say about being Jewish. Candy Gigi says, sings, shouts and vomits them all at the Soho Theatre. And it’s hilarious. Candy Gigi believes…
