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Zohran Mamdani is the NY Mayor that the City and the entire queer community really deserve.
At his administration’s inaugural Pride Month celebration yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke about solidarity with LGBTQ+ residents and attacks on transgender health care. The event brought together New Yorkers of all different stripes, from politicians and activists to actors and drag artists. Mamdani said that the celebration signified his administration’s broader commitment to supporting…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘JOHN OF JOHN’ the 3rd novel from queer Booker Prize Winner DOUGLAS STUART
If Douglas Stuart’s first two novels, Shuggy Bain and Young Mungo, were black and white studies of an unrelentingly bleak gay adolescence in Glasgow, the Scottish – American’s author’s third book, John of John, places his young queer protagonist on the island of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, where the harshness of life…
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Filmmaker Elliot Tuttle talks to Queerguru about his controversial debut movie BLUE FILM
Filmmaker Elliot Tuttle talks to QUEERGURU about his critically acclaimed debut film BLUE FILM. In it, he uses the color (Yves Klein blue) to signify anything that was culturally taboo, and not just the pornographic reference in the telling of his contentious story. This psychological drama begins with Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore), a Los…
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Queerguru Guest Contributor Mike Jackson on ‘Pits and Perverts’ ™ : the story of PRIDE
Which actor would play you in a movie, including your character? I’m in the lucky position to say ‘the British actor Joseph Gilgun, and he already did, in the movie Pride (Pathé 2014). In a couple of days, the new musical version, also called Pride, opens in London’s National Theatre. I’m crazily excited about…
