Still Wild about Wilde

Although he has been dead for over 116 years now, Ireland’s most famous playwright and homosexual Oscar Wilde is still as popular as ever.  He was one of the wittiest men that ever lived on this planet and as well as all his plays and books he threw out such marvelous bon mots like queerguru’s all-time favorite We are … Continue reading

STOKER

On the way home to celebrate India Stoker’s 18th Birthday her father is in a fatal car crash, and so the movie opens with a funeral and a wake.  They are somber affairs not because of the death itself but the frigid atmosphere between the eccentric India and her aloof cold-fish of a mother. Stuck … Continue reading

Stonewall

When out-gay German film director Roland Emmerich bombed The White House in ‘Independence Day’ everyone cheered (it became the first movie to take over $100 million at the Box Office in a week). However the moment he announced that his latest movie would be revisiting the Stonewall Riots that had marked the start of the gay liberation … Continue reading

STONEWALL : THE MOVIE

Roadside Attractions have just released the first trailer of the much-anticipated movie STONEWALL that is set for a general release in US theaters on 25th September 2015.  The movie written by Jon Robin Baitz (TV’s ‘Brother and Sisters’) and directed Roland Emmerich (‘Independence Day’ “The Day After Tommorrow’) who is openly gay, is a fictional narrative that … Continue reading

Stonewall : a queerguru pick

Out gay director Roland Emmerich was on the receiving end of some very nasty vitriolic abuse by people condemning his new movie outright purely on the first sight of a trailer.  A petition was even drawn up urging people to boycott the movie even though no-one had still actually seen it yet to judge it … Continue reading

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