Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn 1978 on the outskirts of Recife, a city in the north of Brazil, a subversive decadent theatre troupe are rehearsing one of their most outrageous shows as the last Military Dictatorship starts to crumble. The star is Paulette a self-absorbed over-the-top drag queen and she and the motley cast perform everything from homoerotic skits (leaving … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen the AIDS epidemic first started back in the early 1980’s the air was rife with panic and dramatic rumors that took the place of hard facts about the disease that were so few and far in between. Nowhere more so than in San Francisco home to a significantly large gay community. By 1985 when … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesJohn Wojtowicz was a loud potty-mouthed self-absorbed oddball whose ill-conceived bungled bank robbery brought him an infamy that he clung to desperately for the rest of his life. He was a brash Brooklynite, who fresh out of the army at the age of 22, married the first girl he set his eyes on. Before the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs a sequel to writer/director Jon Garcia’s rather touching debut movie ‘The Falls’ this new movie follows the two gay ex-Mormon Missionaries five years on when they have long since parted and gone their separate ways. R.J. now writes on LGBT issues for a magazine and is living in Seattle and has a steady and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSome 40 years ago someone gave Sigurdur ‘Siggi’ Hjartarson a School Head Teacher in Iceland, a bull’s penis as a joke. It kick-started what turned out to become a lifetime obsession of collecting any mammalian phallus he could lay his hands on ….. it evidently pass the long dark dismal days and nights of Arctic … Continue reading