Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterNovember 20th is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance when we need to take a few minutes out to remember all the lives of our brothers and sisters who died for no other reason than just wanting to be true to themselves. In the first 11 months of 2016, the murders of 26 transgender people … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe cast and crew of the multi-award winning TV series TRANSPARENT took a day of filming to make this powerful PSA message in support of 17 year old Gavin Grimm. This brave high school senior’s lawsuit was set to be the first Supreme Court case involving transgender rights. But then Trump came along determined … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterValentines Day seems the perfect day to celebrate the recent KISS-IN held by VOICES 4 in partnership with RUSA LGBT outside the Uzbek consulate in New York. It was a protest against the governments of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Azerbaijan who have been abusing their respective powers, rounding up, detaining, assaulting, and physically abusing LGBTQIA+ people. In some cases, law enforcement … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterAmerican/Palestinian singer/actor/filmmaker ZAHER SALEH’s deeply moving short film ‘The War Within’ tells a personal story of a gay Muslim man’s struggle to reconcile his sexuality with his faith, his longing for acceptance from his family and his journey to love and accept himself. The movie was released earlier this summer by We Are One+Together … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLike most sane rational Democrats queerguru has studiously avoided all the outrageous bigoted homophobic misogynist racist bullsh-t that the Republican potential Presidential candidates having been spewing out on a daily basis to grab the headlines and the attention whole swathe of the general public who should no better. There can be no justification for extreme hatred like theirs, … Continue reading