QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Boston’s Wicked Queer screens a 4K restoration of Silas Howard’s seminal debut BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
The only real downside of the queer canon of cinema is that to often films disappear from view before we’ve have a chance to enjoy them. It’s the reason we give kudos to some of our favorite Queer Film Fests like Boston’s Wicked Queer who always program a few excellent movies from our recent…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘ARMANI AND THE BIRTH OF ITALIAN FASHION’ fascinating piece of social history about the rise of Armani, Gucci & Versace
A certain kind of magic happens when the worlds of ambitious gay men and alluring, equally ambitious women collide, never more so than in the designer fashion world with male designers and their supermodel friends and Hollywood muses. Armani And The Birth of Italian Fashion, a documentary by John Maggio, traces the rise of a…
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Trans-owned bookshop invites customers to vandalize JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels
There are so many ways we can fight back.against homophobia and transphobia, and an bookshop in the UK has come up with a brilliant idea. The Bookish Type, a trans-owned bookstore in Leeds and the only trans woman-owned bookshop in England, is offering visitors the chance to deface copies of Harry Potter for just 25p. …
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Want MORE of CLAYBOURNE ELDER? Here’s his debut album ‘IF THE STARS WERE MINE’
I didn’t believe in God. Until now, that is. The proof was sitting there in QUEERGURU’S inbox. It was a note that Grammy-nominated music artist and Broadway performer Claybourne Elder has unveiled his debut solo album, If the Stars Were Mine. I mean, how can one person be so handsome, so very talented and cool…
