Manchester is a very inclusive city and has the second-largest LGBTQ population in the UK (behind London). In fact, in 2011, Expogays named Manchester the most gay-friendly city in the world, even ahead of cities such as San Francisco and Amsterdam. After all, it’s where the UK version of TV’s hit series Queer As … Continue reading
Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible is About to Happen ✩✩✩ Bush Theatre, London Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible is About to Happen is a winkingly clever play, by Marcelo Dos Santos, about the nature and neediness of comedians. Slyly disguised as a one-man stand-up show delivered by the Comedian (Samuel Barnett) it’s … Continue reading
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami enjoys a cult status among the readers of the 21st century. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi undertook the mammoth task of adapting his short story ‘Drive My Car’ into an eponymous film. The result is soul-feeding and visually breathtaking. The film has an unmistakable life force in it that is contagious. … Continue reading
Wikipedia always says it like it really is For out-gay South Floridian Ronnie Larsen, the entry says he “is a playwright and film director specializing in writing plays about sex”. Like his play Making Porn which was about the gay porn industry in the 1980s, and the production was notable for casting gay … Continue reading
Irish filmmaker/writer Shaun Dunne first came onto Queerguru’s radar when his film How To Tell A Secret was released last year. It was yet another story about HIV and the AIDS pandemic. We have viewed more films about this than we care to remember. However once in a blue moon, a feature film comes … Continue reading
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