Queerguru finally managed to track down Tom Goss the queer indie singer/songwriter who has been performing the most tender ballards for some years now to great acclaim. With seven albums under his belt. and just back from another long and very successful Tour promoting his new music he talked to us about that, and now also happily married, how he really is living his dream,
Actor and award-winning playwright TOM RATCLIFFE is the current GUEST ARTISTIC DIRECTOR at London’s Kings Head Theatre for QUEER INTERROGATION his part of their TAKEOVER SEASON. It focuses on telling LGBTQI+ stories whilst also highlighting and celebrating the importance of new writing – from work-in-progress one-nighters to 3 weeks of fully-fledged runs. and then ends with a Writing Course in conjunction with Rikki Beadle-Blair. QUEERGURU caught up with him on the eve of the opening night to learn about this very exciting queer theatre project
TOM SHEPARD started his excellent and unsettling documentary about the plight of a handful of LGBTQ refugees in what we now wistfully call the ‘good old days’ i.e. pre 2016. Up to then this country stood by its centuries old policy of giving refugee to all those in need. His cameras show us the risks that refugees are prepared to take to escape persecution and death back home to try to be one of the lucky few that our very reluctant Administration will allow in .
Then we learn that even if they do eventually make it here, that their struggle is in fact far from over, as the system is stacked so heavily against them,
On the eve of the documentary being broadcast by PBS and the World Channel, Queerguru talked with Shepard about the impact his compelling film was making, and also about the continuing tragic queer refugee situation
P.S. You may also like to to check out Queerguru’s full review of the film