Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterqueerguru used to love Isaac Mizrahi’s rather manic and throughly entertaining chat show on Oxygen TV in the early 2000’s. With a simple motto ‘ordinary life was never so extraordinary’ he always displayed such an inexhaustible zest for life and had such fun playing and teasing his celebrity pals in a casual and relaxed manner that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWhat would make this a perfect St Patrick’s Day for us here in the U.S. is the news from Universal Pictures that they are finally going to release one of (our) most eagerly anticipated documentaries of all time The Queen of Ireland : the story of the country’s most famous drag queen Panti Bliss. You … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterqueerguru is a tad skeptical about a new list of the 30 Best LGBT Movies of all time that BFI Flare released yesterday to mark their own 30th Anniversary as they placed Todd Haynes’s Carol as Number 1. Now as anyone who reads this Blog regularly will know that queerguru has been shouting about this … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter2016 is going to be a good year to look at the work of the celebrated controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. First there is a brand new documentary by the prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato (‘Party Monster’ ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’) called Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures . It had … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOpenly gay singer/songwriter Tom Goss draws on his own experience as a one time student at Catholic Seminary for his powerful and beautiful new take on Dusty Springfield’s classic from 1968 ‘The Son of Preacher Man’. In the video Goss tells the story of two gay teens coming to terms with both their sexuality and … Continue reading
