When queerguru was recently at BFI Flare London’s LGBTQ Film Festival we talked to Icelandic filmmaker Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen about his gay horror movie Rift / Rökkur which was screening there and is now available in the US we streaming on Amazon Prime and iTunes etc, from Breaking Glass Pictures. BTW Erlingur thinks that all gay … Continue reading
Elio Fiorucci, one of the most iconic fashion designers and innovative retailers of the Swinging 1960’s, died on Monday in Milan. Fiorucci had a passionate obsession with everything trendy and British in the disco era and when he opened his very first store in Milan, it served as his vision of an outpost of the … Continue reading
Between 2014 and 2016 photographer Elisabeth Waterman undertook an ambitious project covering the drag scenes in New York. The result is Gorgeous Drag which is now an online Exhibition at the Albumen Gallery. It is one of the very BEST collections of drag queens and performers that we have ever seen. It was the … Continue reading
Ella Marques is an extraordinary woman who chose to start transitioning when she was 60 years old. She wrote about her journey to finally being true to herself in a refreshingly frank and enthralling memoir I WAS A BOY FROM VENUS. Ella sat down to talk to queerguru on the eve of her Book Signing at Stonewall National … Continue reading
The movie opens with such a shockingly brutal rape scene that stuns one into disbelief. Even knowing that it is helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven who directed the controversial Basic Instinct, and is based on a story by Phillipe Dijan the author of Betty Blue, still doesn’t quite prepare one for the fact that … Continue reading