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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews ALL THE COLORS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK & WHITE winner of TEDDY AWARD 2023
This fictional film from Nigeria just premiered at the Panorama Section of the 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival. where it won the prestigious TEDDY AWARD Queerness is a taboo topic in Nigeria, one of the most difficult countries in the world to be an LGBT+ person, people there can face up to 10 years…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews the UK Premiere of Robert O’Hara’s BOOTYCANDY
Bootcandy ★★ ★ ★ The Gate Theatre, London Do you remember spin art? It was the art of carnivals and funfairs, bright sploshes of colour thrown onto a spinning canvas. It was art that children, lacking the tools of adults, could make. Whirling chaotically during creation, it suddenly stops and a final, beautiful picture…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews ‘A DICE WITH FIVE SIDES’ : the outcome of a 1st date is determined by the roll of a dice
FOLLOW THE BEAT OF YOUR HEART OR DANCE FOREVER TO THE MUSIC OF FATE A tale of two lovers, Marcello (Alexander Ananasso) an intergalactic seducer, and Herman (Jake Garvey) an aerospace engineer. After a sex date, both men engage in occasional encounters for a long period of time, which stretches some years during which they…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews WINDFALL ‘a jack-in-the-box comedy’ @ Southwark Playhouse, London
Windfall ★★★★ Southwark Playhouse Borough Windfall is a jack-in-the-box of a comedy, but in the first half, you don’t know it. It unwinds in an amusing but restrained way with glimpses of something more compelling beneath the surface, then in the second half, it leaps out at you. A manic, blade-wielding clown from a…
