a-z index - QUEERGURU

Over 80% of the actors at the casting for Jayro Bustamante’s film refused to play ‘gay’

When Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante‘s went to cast his sophomore film a drama about a married man who comes out as gay he was shocked to discover that over 80% of the actors at the casting would not play ‘gay’ . He needn’t have worried though as he chose the extremely talented actor JUAN PABLO … Continue reading

Over 80% of the actors at the casting for Jayro Bustamante’s film TREMOR refused to play ‘gay’

Over My Dad’s Body : Daddy Dearest

Over My Dad’s Body ☆☆☆☆ The Vault Festival When Simon David opens by mounting a glittery ladder and singing a big brassy rendition of ‘I’m gay, I’m gay, I’m gay’ containing the line ‘I don’t have a personality – beyond my sexuality’ it does create a certain set of expectations about what is about … Continue reading

OVER THE RAINBOW : a stunning exhibit of key queer art at Pompidou Centre, Paris

OVER THE RAINBOW is a stunning new Exhibit of queer art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition brings together more than five hundred artworks and documents and sets out to show how, since the beginning of the twentieth century, artists have contributed to transforming the representation of so-called “minority” sexualities and have … Continue reading

Overlooked No More: Roberta Cowell, Trans Trailblazer, Pilot and Auto Racer

Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The New York Times. This month they adding the stories of important L.G.B.T. figures.: this a REPRINT of one of them ROBERTA COWELL At the height of Roberta Cowell’s celebrity status, in 1954, her face adorned the cover of … Continue reading