Historian JULIO CAPO on QUEERMIAMI the new Exhibit that looks at our Community’s past

  To mark the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Inn Riots, gay historian/academic and author of Welcome to Fairyland : Queer Miami before Julio Capó Jr. has curated  a new exhibit at HistoryMiami Museum . Queer Miami : A History of LGBTQ Communities traces our community from its roots to the current day. Queerguru took a … Continue reading

HOLD ON : a stark choice between Faith and Sexuality

  Queerguru talks with young American/Chinese queer filmmaker Haiyang Yu about his new short film HOLD ON which had us in tears. It is the story of a devout Catholic mother who is the caregiver for her disabled gay son and has to choose between her faith and her son’s happiness To find out where the film is screening … Continue reading

How ‘P.S Burn This Letter Please’ is set to become one of the best new docs on queer history

  Queerguru talks with filmmakers directors/writers/producers  Michael Seligman & Jennifer Tiexiera about their exhilarating new doc P.S. Burn this Letter Please about a whole treasure trove of letters from NY drag queens in the 1950/60’s that have just been discovered.  It shows a wonderful slice of queer history pre-Stonewall that has never been documented in such … Continue reading

How Gay Can Man[ny] Get?

Is a Britney Spears Themed 40th Birthday Bash just toooooo gay?  No need to answer it is a rhetorical question.  This is however Miami where nothing is ever too much and Manny the host has a Peter Pan complex anyway. Saying that it was all done in the best possible taste.  DJ HottPants was there … Continue reading

HUGH RYAN : When Brooklyn Was Queer

  When Historian, Curator and Author HUGH RYAN was in #Pown at EAST END BOOKS for a reading of his latest book WHEN BROOKLYN WAS QUEER , he talked to QUEERGURU about this and how in the year of STONEWALL 50, the whole subject of queer history is finally getting the attention it deserves Filmed … Continue reading

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