What strikes one most about LUCIA LUCAS, the American opera singer now based in Germany who is the subject of a new documentary is her sheer passion for both life and opera. In the film director James Kicklighter captures that so succinctly as he profiles Lucas as she is about to make her US debut performing the lead role in a new production of Don Giovanni for The Tulsa Opera.
Lucas is a trans woman. Having said that the disarmingly charming Lucas is neither a martyr nor pioneer to the cause. She is a human being and an extremely talented singer who just happens to also be a trans woman.
Having been so caught up in her on-screen charisma, Queerguru tracked Lucas down in Europe to talk about the significance of both her performance and this new documentary. The film is being released on VOD on most major streaming platforms, on June 1st to mark the start of Pride Month.
P.S, You can read Queerguru’s full review of The Identity of Sound HERE
On the eve of his movie TU ME MANQUES being made available streaming globally, Queerguru tracked down director Rodrigo Bellott in Bolivia to talk about his film. It is one of the very rare queer movies to come out of his country, and Initially, it encountered controversy but then it ended up being their Official Submission to both the Academy Awards and the Goyas
We raved about the film the very first time we saw it calling it one the saddest coming-of-age movies ever! You can read Queerguru’s full review HERE.
If you have trouble tracking down a streaming platform to view this film check with https://darkstarpics.com/
We’ve done something we thought would be completely impossible. We went through Queerguru’s entire YouTube channel that now has over 600 videos containing our interviews over our FIRST FIVE YEARS and condensed them down to just ONE minute for this new celebration tape.
DON’T blink otherwise you’ll miss the Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, MAC Award Winners, and Nominees. There is even an Olympic Gold Medal Winner too. Plus two Sex In The City actors,……one who appeared totally naked (but clothed for us) and a few Senators including one who is the Leader. That’s just to show our serious (!) side.
Plus oodles of our favorite Drag Queens and artists and artistes, most of whom brighten our Summers in Provincetown.
Special thanks to all the PR’s, Agents, Managers, and PA’s who helped arrange all the extraordinary talent for us to share some time with.
NOW if you are more old-school and like to take things a tad more leisurely here is the 4 min version (with even more stars)
P.S. We set about this project the day we passed the 4000 mark subscribers and 1.25 Million Hits on our
You Tube Channel (to join our 68K followers in 46 countries on FB). We were very proud (& thankful) but is was the
very same day that Amazon announced they had something like 200million on their books just to make us feel small.
SO PLEASE help us beat Amazon by subscribing to our CHANNEL NOW its free and fabulous
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Emmy award-winning documentarian Chris McKim talks aboutWojnarowiczan excellent new doc on one of NY’s greatest queer artists/activists on the eve of its screening at OUTshine Film Festival.
The film produced by World of Wonder is also online/select theaters via Kino Marquee.
Queerguru is frequently drawn to Seattle as it is the home of such an extraordinarily wonderful and unique queer culture that is so unlike any other US city. With Dina Martina as its unofficial patron saint, there seems to be no end to the talent that emerges from there.
We were back there again this week to talk with filmmaker Aaron Bear and when we asked if he thought it was all to do with ‘something in the water’ he immediately responded that it was actually ‘something in the rain.”
We first came across Bear’s work in 2017 when we reviewed his debut film, Finding Kim. It was a heart-touching compelling documentary about Kim Byford who at the age of 49 had decided that the time is finally right to complete her transition from female to male. We wrote back then that it was an unmissable gem of a film.
Now on the eve of his latest documentary about to be screened as part of Miami’s OUTshine LGBTQ Film Festival this week so we talked with Bear about YES I AM: The Ric Weiland Story. Queerguru is still reeling from the fact that we had never previously heard of Weiland who was one of the greatest queer activists and philanthropists EVER.
It’s a fascinating story that needs to reach the audience it so deserves, particularly within the LGBTQ community.
P.S. It goes without saying, that Weiland spent a large part of his life in Seattle too.
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