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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Dorothy (and we assume Toto) are opening a much needed bar for queer women in London
Until today, we have never appreciated how ‘dry’ London is for lesbians, and news lands in our inboxes that a new lesbian bar is about to open. Not on Old Compton Street with all the male gay bars, but in Camberwell, South London, where co-founders Molly McCabe and Beth White, after a successful crowdfunding…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reviews Alex Gibney’s excellent doc ‘MUSK’ on the world’s first ever trillionaire
It takes a brave, fearless filmmaker to take on the world’s wealthiest megalomaniac, so doff your cap to American filmmaker Alex Gibney and his portrait of Elon Musk. Filming began in 2023, with production on hold before Gibney returned to the project. The midterm election of Nov. 2026 is referenced, although Musk’s pumping of close…
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Queerguru’s Grayson checks out “The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats” and is pissed he’s not starring in it
The old trope about lesbians and cats has not completely disappeared, but when we read up on why it exists, we knew we were on very shaky ground. It allegedly got rather controversial during early lesbian feminism in the 1970s when communities embraced cats as symbols of independent, unapologetic living. Like cats, queer women were…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews “God Save The Queens” an exhibition honouring the iconic women of Punk and New Wave. @ London´s Museum of Youth Culture.
I must admit that I had never heard of misogyny until I was 18 years old, and at university. Women ruled supreme in my seventies UK childhood and early eighties teenage years. Mums and female teachers were in charge of our lives; the girls at school were harder than the boys and, as a nation,…
