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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Catherine Opie – To Be Seen, an exhibition of the artist’s remarkable portraiture, now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Queer America is under attack at the moment, so the representation of LGBTQ American lives is more important than ever. It’s therefore ideal timing for Catherine Opie’s first major UK museum show, To Be Seen, which is now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Since she launched her career in the late 1980s, queer representation…
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Guest Contributor Kareem Tabsch reviews ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo: A Refuge at the End of the World ‘
Northern Chile is a place that seems to exist outside of time and outside of humanity. Its desert landscape — arid and stripped of all vegetation — evokes the surface of another planet more than any inhabited corner of the Earth. And yet it is precisely in this extreme solitude that men have found their…
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To mark the forthcoming 10th Anniversary of the ‘PULSE MASSACRE’ Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews GAYS AGAINST GUNS
Who are Gays Against Guns? Set up in the aftermath of the 2016 Pulse shootings in Orlando, when 49 queer nightclubbers were slaughtered, GAG has become a prominent organisation in the struggle to introduce stricter gun control laws in the United States. Young LGBTQ+ people see gay clubs as sanctuaries and the bloody attack at…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Hunky Jesus, the heart-warming story of San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the gala opening film at London’s queer BFI Flare film Festival.
San Francisco came to London last night as the juggernauts that are the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hit town. They’re here for the BFI Flare’s launch of Hunky Jesus, a heart-warming new documentary by director Jennifer M Kroot that kick-started BFI Flare’s 40th anniversary of the best queer film festival. For the uninitiated, the Sisters…
