Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s hard to grasp the fact that Matthew Shepard should have been celebrating his 37th birthday this year if it hadn’t been for the tragic events of that fateful night 16 years ago on that desolate prairie outside of Laramie in Wyoming. So many of us still think of him as the slight short blond-haired … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesNimr is in Tel Aviv to visit his old friend Mustafa in a Gay Bar where he works since moving from Ramallah. Once there he meets Roy a very flirtatious your lawyer who gently puts the moves on equally handsome Nimr who is quickly smitten and is soon ready to make a night of it. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe four young men have been best friends forever and what keeps them together is their need to help each other. Naive and innocent Jason is still dealing with being alone after his parents were assassinated by a car bomb; Elvis is trying to get out of the clutches of his drug dealing father so … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOpening with a quote from Nietzsche ‘there is also some madness in love, but there is is some reason in madness’ this timely narrative about how extreme homophobia is in Russia is a saddening tale about the price of being gay (and in love) in that country. Anton and his boyfriend Vlad are driving … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs I was living in the UK in the 1990’s I had never heard of the case of Paul Broussard a 27 year old gay man in Houston Texas who was the fatal victim of a hate crime in the early hours of July 4th 1991, until I came across this excellent intriguing new documentary. … Continue reading