a-z index - QUEERGURU

A first look at the highly anticipated RUDOLF NUREYEV Biopic

Here’s the first trailer of the highly anticipated biopic on the late great Rudolf Nureyev called The White Crow. Directed by Ralph Fiennes from a script by David Hare, it stars emerging dancer Oleg Ivenko as Nureyev, and ballet’s bad boy Sergei Polunin who was recently sacked by the Paris Opera for his homophobic remarks. … Continue reading

A Five Star Life ….. but does it bring happiness?

Irene spends her life nit-picking over every casual slight from any hotel front-desk clerk or noting exactly how long room service takes to deliver her order before she sticks her thermometer in first the wine and then the soup. That’s all before she strips the bed down completely to see how soft and clean the … Continue reading

A Fold In My Blanket aka ‘Chemi sabnis naketsi’

This rather baffling complex surrealist movie, the directing/writing debut of Georgian filmmaker Zaza Rusadze, is set in a small town in his country some time in the near future. The somewhat sketchy plot tells the story of young Dmitrij who has just come back from studying in Western Europe and now has a lowly monotonous clerical job in the … Continue reading

A fully-clothed DREW SEBASTIAN talks about his one-man-show DAD’S CABARET

Drew Sebastian is a man who wears many hats ….. one of which means he actually wears nothing at all. His first love was musical theater, he trained at Cordon Bleu School and became a chef to a few famous folks (think Adam Levine etc) and in the Covid Lockdown he was a … Continue reading

A gay (American) family in Vietnam : a shining example for the local LGBTQ+ community

Ted Osius (aka Theodore George Osius III) was one of the openly gay diplomats that President Barack Obama appointed to be a United States Ambassador. (Remember those good old days!) Osius was appointed to head up the US Embassy in Vietnam in 2014 and this Vietnamese-speaking Ambassador moved to Saigon with his husband of … Continue reading