Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews 3670, a thought-provoking tale of a shy North Korean gay defector’s assimilation into Seoul’s vibrant queer life.
South Korea has a vibrant queer scene, particularly in buzzing Seoul. The mainstream society remains fairly conservative, though, and many queer people remain in the closet there. 3670, a new drama by director Joonho Park, explores this from the perspective of Kim Cheol-jun (You-hyun Cho), a handsome North Korean defector who escaped to South Korea…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE SESSION MAN , a brilliant documentary about one of rock’s great unsung heros.
What do Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones, The First Cut is the Deepest by P P Arnold and Jealous Guy by John Lennon have in common? The answer is that they all contain iconic piano riffs by one of the most gifted pianists ever, Nicky Hopkins. You might not have heard of…
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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…
