a-z index - QUEERGURU

To Inspire To Be Yoursef

The founder of Bulgaria’s LGBTQ group Single Step Ivan Dimov said that the new stunning video that they have just released was based on a vision he had a year ago. It was of a young man in distress standing on the edge of a cliff. And he takes one crucial step. The video encourages people all … Continue reading

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.

Writer/director Greta Gerwig received two Academy Award nominations for Little Women but now her latest film is on the most famous ‘little’ women of all time: Barbie. It’s an intriguing prospect especially when you also know that her writing partner (and also lifetime partner) is Noah Baumbach who picked up an Academy Award for his very quirky and highly successful The … Continue reading

TO ROME WITH LOVE

Unlike fellow American filmmaker Roman Polanski, Woody Allen’s ‘exile’ in Europe is self imposed and no doubt encouraged by the fact that the Europeans worship them far more as celebrated auteurs than in their own country. Unlike Polanski who goes out of his way to pretend that his movies are filmed in the US, Allen’s … Continue reading

To Survive on this Shore : an Exhibit of Transgender & Gender Non-Conforming Older Adults

The Patricia & Frost Art Museum on the F.I.U. Campus in Miami is the first stop for an exhibit of stunning captivating work from artist Jess T. Dugan. To Survive On This Shore consists of a series of powerful images of transgender and gender non-conforming older adults, but what really impacts the portraits is … Continue reading

TOAST

The only one food that Nigel Slater’s mother could cook without ruining it was toast, and so consequently this was his staple diet as a young middle-class boy grooming up in Wolverhampton, a town in the British Midlands, in the 1960’s. Late at night Nigel would surreptitiously read cookery books in bed by torchlight pining … Continue reading