If you run out of recreational drugs this Christmas (as if!) then queerguru recommends watching Pee Wee’s Playhouse Christmas from 1988 which will have exactly the same effect on you. This bizarre and wacky Christmas Special actually got three Emmy nominations and is the story of how Pee-wee’s Christmas wish list is so long that … Continue reading
Way before there were any gay men in the UK (well, officially that is) in public at least it was only women that ogled after men’s near-naked bodies. Each year there was a competition to find Mr. Apollo from a bevy of masculine beauties dressed in skimpy Speedo swim trunks. The year was 1959 and the Judges were … Continue reading
Like everyone else sometimes we hanker for the past, particularly when it’s such a happy memory that deserves to be shared. So queerguru is introducing a new regular feature called ‘TURN BACK TIME’ where we will re-visit some of those fab moments that we feel are worth more than a second look. We are going … Continue reading
For ‘Throwback Thursday’ here is one of very favorite versions of Big Spender from the musical Sweet Charity. It’s performed by the Australian male cast of “King Kong the Musical” at Twisted Broadway Melbourne an annual charity event raising money for Oz Showbiz Cares Equity Fights AIDS in 2013.
The sublime Dusty Springfield was so much more than the flamboyant figure she cut with her peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and her signature heavy eye make-up. At her peak in the 1960’s she was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 … Continue reading