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Jeffrey Schwarz’s ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ : World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival
William Friedkin’s 1980 film CRUISING was….. and still is … the most controversial queer film ever made. It’s about a series of violent New York murders in which the victims all frequent clandestine Manhattan nightclubs in which gay men gather to dance, drink, and make pairings while enveloped in an S&M atmosphere of leather, boots,…
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When it comes to slashing LGBTQ+ rights are the US any better than Russia now?
Remember those not-so-long-ago days when the entire West considered Russia an authoritarian state that severely restricted personal freedoms? However, if you are a member of the LGBTQA+ community in the US nowadays, the differences regarding our liberties are decreasing daily. So much so that if you read some of the latest anti-gay pronouncements, you can…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘BLUE BOY TRIAL’ the heartfelt story of the landmark 1960’s Japanese trans rights court case
Queer life in 1960´s Japan isn’t mentioned very often, even though by the mid-1960s there were about fifty gay bars in Tokyo, albeit largely discreet and low profile. Tokyo´s current queer neighbourhood of Shinjuku Ni-Chome was already a thing by then. Trans lives were also becoming easier, in part due to the pioneering gender-affirming surgery…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reviews ‘PERSONA’ a stunning collection of MASKS @The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London
557 burials in the walls and floors of the crypt built in 1822 beneath St Pancras Church resonate with the artwork of 40 artists. Persona is the brainchild of Estelle Riviere Monsterlune who corralled artworks from creative friends and colleagues linked to the curator’s otherworldly catwalks, underground markets, fetish dens and mixed media installations. This…
