Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterRichard Renaldi’s stunning photographs which so succinctly capture urbanite Manhattan club-goers as they make the trek home in the early hours of morning, are currently the focus of his one-man=show at one of New York’s leading art museums. The Chicago-born photographer now based in N.Y. told Gay Star News that he wanted to capture the juxtaposition … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterCarrie Bradshaw‘s favorite shoe man is now about to clad the feet of all the men in her life (if only she was still around …..sigh!) The legendary Spanish designer Manolo Blahnik who has cultivated all the airs and graces of an English aristocrat is devoting his new 17th retail store (‘tiny but fabulous’ he claims) … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterqueerguru is at the Sundance Film Festival all week where this year that have a particularly strong LGBT content in their program. The first one that we have seen that has really got us very excited is “Mapplethorpe : Look At The Pictures” a wonderful documentary on Robert Mapplethorpe the controversial talented photographer who did … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterActor/singer Marc Devigne sings Ça va (written by Michael Daniel Murphy) from Shadowlands. In the story titled Pygmalion Revisited, Rudy (Charlie David) is a painter who in mourning the loss of his lover Xavier (Marc Devigne) and becomes obsessed with creating a realistic painting of him. The resulting piece is so beautiful and lifelike that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterMarianne Breslauer’s career as a photographer in Berlin in the Weimer Republic was cut short with the advent of World War 2, and in fact only lasted from 1927 -1938. Being Jewish she had trouble getting her work published in Germany so she emigrated to Amsterdam as the Nazis were gaining power, and then moved … Continue reading