a-z index - QUEERGURU

Run For More : the compelling documentary about a charismatic Texan transgender woman and her fight ‘for a seat at the table’

So many of us in the LGBTQ+ community have such traumatic experiences when we ‘come out’ that it can have such an adverse effect on our future behavior in society. Even more for those that are the ‘T’ part of the equation. However not so for Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe a transgender woman in Texas who … Continue reading

Run(a)way Arab

It’s nigh on impossible not to really like Amrou Al-Kadhi an out and proud queer Iraqi drag queen / activist / writer / actor / journalist / filmmaker. He is also disarmingly charming to boot. The London-based founder and star of Denim the drag superstar group has always been such an articulate advocate about being … Continue reading

Rupert Everett and 50 Shades of Gay

Listening to the dulcet upper-class voice of openly gay Brit actor Rupert Everett talk about the seedier side of gay life seems a tad surreal, even though if you have read his own colorful memoirs you will know that this posh-sounding actor has had more than his fair share of rather scandalous living. He is … Continue reading

Rupert Everett’s new biopic on gay icon Oscar Wilde premieres at Berlinale

Posted with permission from AFP Gay cinema pioneer Rupert Everett said his new biopic about legendary literary dandy Oscar Wilde captures him as a “Christ-like” figure who sacrificed himself for the future global LBGTQ rights movement. Everett penned, directed and starred in his years-long passion project about the flamboyant 19th-century Irish writer, “The Happy Prince“, … Continue reading

RUSH

Close on the heels of ‘Senna’ one of the hot docs of 2012 that told of the bitter rivalry between the charismatic Brazilian 3-time World Champion Formula One Driver Ayrton Senna and the French 4-time Champion Alain Proust comes this stunning narrative of a very similar battle royal two decades earlier. In this instance, in one … Continue reading