Queer Latinx filmmaker Flavio Alves feature film directing debut is The Garden Left Behind a completely mesmerising movie that makes such a crucial contribution to the continuing dialogue on the transgender community. After wowing audiences and critics at SXSW, the movie is headed to Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival. En route he took time to talk to QUEERGURU about how he involved over 50 trans mens and women to make the film so authentic
The interview conducted by Roger Walker-Dackvia Facetime, and you can read our full review of The Garden Left Behind HERE
Trevor Bachman is a queer composer, vocalist, and writer of socially-focused musicals, musical director, mentor and activist. A regular performer at Joe’s Pub in NY, one of the latest projects from this prolific multi-talented artist is SHAPESHIFTERS. It’s a new musical commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall that was commissioned by the Denovan Grant and which had its premiere during WorldPride2019NYC
Now Bachman is about to perform their sole show SHAPELIFTERS PLAYLIST at the Afterglow Festival in Provincetown Art House Theatre for ONE NIGHT ONLY. Queerguru called them in NY to talk about the show which will mark their PTown Debut
We finally learnt about those leather crowns that suddenly popped up this summer ; thanks Full Kit and Mario of Mama Leather tried to convince us that leatherman (or leather people) need to wear colors other than black.
QUEERGURU has over 1000 reviews of QUEER MOVIES BUT it also has over 100 interviews with some of the best (mostly) QUEER FILMMAKERS …..check out the list
Nathan ADLOFF, Andrew AHN, Noel ALEJANDRO, Amrou AL-KHADI, Flavio ALVES. ANTHONY & ALEX,, Sean BAKER, Hernando BANSUELO. Shari BEN-DOR, Jason BENJAMIN, Thomas BEZUCHA, Marvin BLUNTE. Nick BORENSTEIN, Howard BROOKNER, Effie BROWN. Jordan BYRON, Samantha BUCK & Marie SCHLINGMANN, Jayro BUSTMANTE , Wiebke von CAROLSFIELD, Jean CARLOMUSTO, LI CHENG, Alan CHERBOT, Michael CHILDERS, Mark CHRISTOPHER, T COOPER, Paul DOWNS COLAIZZO, Antonio DA SILVA, Donna DEITCH, Andrew DRESHER, P David EBERSOLE & Todd HUGHES, Rob EPSTEIN, C FITZ, Dina FLOR, Rebekah FORTUNE, David FRANCE, Gail FREEDMAN, Jeffrey FRIEDMANN, Vincent GAGLIOSTRO, Jon GARCIA, Adam GARNETT , Amy GELLER, Bobcat GOLDTHWAIT, Ester GOULD & Reijer ZWAAN, Jake GRAF, Phillip GUTTMANN,. Shaleece HAAS, Michel HAZANAVICIUS, Josh HOWARD, Dan HUNT, Joanna JAMES, Sebastian JUNGER, Eric JUHOLA. Laurie KAHN, Jeff KAUFMAN & Marcia ROSS, Tom KIRKMAN< Paul KNEGT, Vlada KNOWLTON, Joey KUHN, Leon LE, Francis LEE, Charl-Johan LINGENFELDER, Mikko MAKELA, Jonah MARKOWITZ , Andrea MEYERSON, Carlo MIRABELLA-DAVIS, Daniel MONKS, Matthew MONTGOMERY , Daniel MOSHER, Camille Vidal NAQUET, Daniel NOLASCO, Bao NGUYEN. Brian O’DONNELL. Toby OPPENHEIMER, Michael PALMIERI, Alden PETERS, Matthew PUCCINI, Jennifer REEDER, Daniel RIBIERO, Moises SERRANO . Sebastian SILVA, Christopher SCHAAP, Eric SHAEFFER, Lone SCHERFIG, Jeffrey SCHWARZ, Norah SHAPIRO Will SULLIVAN and Derek DODGE, Kareem TABSCH, Yen TAN, David THORPE, Matt TIMMISS. Ondi TIMONER. Brendon TOLLER, Erlingur Óttar THORODDSEN. Hannah Pearl UTT, Sergio TOVAR VELARDE, Tracey WARES. John WATERS, Dolly WELLS. Sarah WHARTON. Joseph WILSON. Jake WITZENFELD. KIm YAGED. Cameron YATES. Haiyang YU. George R ZUBER
The summer is over and so it’s time for the whole QUEERGURU team to leave #Ptown and follow their leader back to #MiamiBeach for the Fall/Winter in the Sun. However not everyone is happy with the news…….