Daniel Monks film maker, BFI Southbank London.March 2018 photo by Debbie Sears
We caught up with one of new fav. queer filmmakersDaniel Monks literally the moment he stepped off the plane from Sydney. He’s come to BFI Flare London’s LGBTQ Film Festival for the European Premiere of his delightful movie #PULSE about a disabled gay teenager. Beg, steal or borrow to get a ticket AND be sure to take a whole box of Kleenex with you.
NB This is an interview with a remarkable queer artist that makes art for queer adults.
Daniel Ortiz is a Brooklyn-born queer Artist of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent who is about to participate in ART GAYSEL Miami’s Queerest Art Fair that is making its PROVINCETOWN Debut. He has really been able to hone in on a style of art that truly represents him as a gay Latino. It has not been an easy road of acceptance, but he has managed to actively pursue an art career and has now introduced “Art by Dan” my very first own online shop and brand.
On the eve of the new Fair he talked with QUEERGURU about how he hopes his work will inspire and impact people, especially members of the LGBTQ community
David Färdmar’s debut feature film ARE WE LOST FOREVER is one of the best queer romances of 2020. Already available on DVD/VOD in the US from TLA Releasing & Dekkoo.com, Queerguru caught up with this Swedish writer/director on the eve of Peccadillo Pictures now streaming it in UK & Ireland. We wanted to know in particular if this intimate heartbreaking story was autobiographical ……
This memoir is of the extraordinary frenetic life of a skinny queer kid who left his home in the grim North of England to ‘find himself in London‘. In the 1980s and 1990s he found himself as a central figure in a colorful larger-than-life hedonistic queer group of non-binary drag queens and soon become known as the Queen of Soho.
He ran Trannyshack his own club night at Madame Jojo’s THE place to party and be seen. There was however another side to Hodge, now known as Dusty O, as at the height of the AIDS pandemic he took a day job as a service worker at The London Lighthousethe purpose-built leading AIDS Hospice, It set him aside from many of his celebrity buddies, and it grounded him enough to be able to move forward to his present life as a very successful artist
Queerguru talked with the disarmingly charming Hodges about this biography that has been getting rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s not just the joyous tale of Hodge’s fascinating roller-coast life but it is a remarkable and essential record queer history of one of the most tumultuous times of our Community’s history.
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