Margaret Cho hits Miami

The extraordinary wild and fabulously funny women ……and thoroughly good egg …… Margaret Cho hits Miami.  I got to meet her this summer in P. Town where, to put it frankly, the woman is not surprisingly worshipped, as she loves this (very gay) speck at the tip of Cape Cod as much as we love … Continue reading

Margaret Cho says F–K fashion and ‘designers’ that body shame.

In one of the better pourings of disgust to the homophobic and misogynistic remarks from the Patrick Couderc the UK Managing Director of the Herve Leger fashion brand in an interview with ‘The Daily Mail’, outspoken comedian Margaret Cho summed it up perfectly on twitter with ‘Fuck fashion and designers that body shame.’ Couderc gave … Continue reading

Margarita Pracatan : legendary Cuban singer and gay icon dies aged 89

To her devoted queer fans, the singer Margarita Pracatan was the best thing that Cuba ever exported.   She found fame relatively late in life when Clive James one of the biggest Talk Show Hosts in UK TV discovered Margarita performing on her Manhattan public-access television cable TV program in 1994 and invited her to the … Continue reading

Margate Pride : the queer community of a Brit Seaside Town is about to Celebrate

Celebrating PRiDE for us here at Queerguru is not just about the packed muscle-to-muscle circuit boy beach parties in major metropolitan cities (which we do LOVE) but equally, if not more important, it is in some of the smaller, less well-known places around the globe. Just like Margate.  This is a small coastal town just … Continue reading

Marianne Breslauer’s 1930’s gender-bending women

Marianne Breslauer’s career as a photographer in Berlin in the Weimer Republic was cut short with the advent of World War 2, and in fact only lasted from 1927 -1938.  Being Jewish she had trouble getting her work published in Germany so she emigrated to Amsterdam as the Nazis were gaining power, and then moved … Continue reading

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