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Turn Back Time to 2002 and the award-winning hilarious short film GAYDAR

For Throw Back Thursdays we turn back time to 2002 and this delightfully funny award-winning short film Gaydar which will appeal to every gay man who has ever secretly lusted after a hunky man who may not be as straight as he seems. Or is that just wishful thinking? Randy (Terry Ray) has a huge crush on handsome co-worker … Continue reading

Turn Back Time to when LGBT literature was pulp fiction

In the week that queerguru is fully immersed in the Miami Book Fair which has some excellent LGBT programming our coverage will follow next week), we take a look back at the exploitative “literature” of the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s. At the time this ‘pulp fiction’ detailing the seedy underbelly of homosexual life … Continue reading

Turn Back Time to when major Hollywood Stars used to love to camp it up

Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye lip-synch their way through ‘Sisters’ in the 1954 holiday classic White Christmas in a most outrageous fashion. The number was never in the original script and the guys were just goofing around on the set but director Michael Curtiz found it so funny that he wrote it in. On … Continue reading

Turn Back Time : we revisit Barbara Cook as a Kennedy Awards Honoree in 2011

The Tony Award winning actress and singer BARBARA COOK arrived on Broadway in the 1950’s and never disappeared from the limelight until her death in 2017 at the age of 89.. She was in the very first production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, created the role created the award winning role of Marian the Librarian … Continue reading

Turn Back Time : when TV interviewing was a real art

You really have to search hard for “Face to Face” interviews on the University of YouTube as they were originally broadcast in the UK between 1959 and 1961, but if you are prepared to delve the rewards are enormous. A search will uncover interviews with some of the major world figures of the last … Continue reading