Celebrating PRIDE in the most unlikely places around the Globe

When it comes to PRIDE Month what excites the Queerguru Team more is not the well-oiled heavily sponsored events in metropolitan cities like New York, London, or Berlin.  It’s those smaller cities, that are more remote and where sometimes people quite rightly think they may be the ‘only gay in the village’ that hold Pride … Continue reading

Celebrating PRIDE with the AIDS Quilt Display to remember all of those we lost

  To mark PRIDE ’22 the National AIDS Memorial will have a historic outdoor display in Golden Gate Park that will feature nearly 3,000 hand-stitched panels of the Quilt.  This quilt display in San Francisco will help us all to celebrate Pride specifically by remembering all those we lost in the pandemic. The two-day event, … Continue reading

Celebrating queer life …..and Pride …. in Britain’s southern seaside towns

  In the 1960s the seaside resort town of Margate on the South Coast of the UK  became the center for two conflicting British youth subcultures  There were ‘rockers’ who dressed in black leather astride their motorbikes all thinking they were as cool as Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Mods on the other hand … Continue reading

Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday with some queer & gender productions of his work online

  To celebrate William Shakespeare’s April 26th birthday (he’s not quite 500 yet!) here are some great queer and gender productions of some of his finest plays available to view online Brit queer director Phyllida Lloyd mounted an  all-female trilogy of plays comprising Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest  playing at London’s Donmar Warehouse … Continue reading

Celebrating the Queer Stars and Allies who died in 2023 and whom we will never Forget

  Kenneth Anger was a renowned queer, avant-garde artist known for his surreal films who died at 96. He produced almost 40 works beginning in 1937 which variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult. One of America’s first openly gay filmmakers” with several films released before homosexuality was legalized in the U.S. he also wrote two “Hollywood … Continue reading

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