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Ben SantaMaria: Really Want To Hurt Me

On the eve of opening at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writer/director Ben Santa Maria talks about REALLY WANT TO HURT ME: a funny & painfully honest new play about a gay schoolboy’s rocky road from suicidal self-hatred to finding self-esteem in 1980s Devon. The interview with Roger Walker-Dack was filmed via Facetime P.S. Queerguru would love you to bits if you … Continue reading

Ben Whishaw Falls In Love

The UK’s BBC TV Channel have just announced that out gay actor Ben Whishaw is to star in a new spy/gay romance miniseries next month called ‘London Spy’. It is the story of a chance romance between two people from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from … Continue reading

Ben Whishaw’s THIS IS GOING TO HURT TV series sweeps BAFTA TV nominations

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has released its list of nominees for their Television Awards and it very refreshingly has an excellent representation of queer programs and performers. In fact, leading the pack with the most nominations medical comedy-drama This Is Going To Hurt, starring openly gay Gilden Globe/Emmy … Continue reading

Benda Bilili

In 2004 French filmmakers Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye were making a series of short films about music in The Congo when they stumbled across a street Band made up of 4 paraplegics. These musicians were living in a squalid shelter for disabled people at the time, reliant on their make shift hand powered tricycles to … Continue reading

Benjamin Weinryb Grohsgal debut art Exhibit at Studio Lacombe in PTown

Finding a ‘virgin’ (especially an artistic one) in Ptown these days is quite a rarity, but Studio Lacombe has found one and invited him to have his ‘debut’ this coming weekend. Originally from NY originally Benji Weinryb Grohsga moved to Provincetown a little over 2 years ago on a whim. After studying to … Continue reading