a-z index - QUEERGURU

The Circle aka Der Kreis

Even though he led a very closeted life, Ernst Ostertag went out in public to a gay Ball held by The Circle Magazine and met and fell in love with Robi Rapp, a drag act who was performing there that night, who would later become his life partner. The year was 1956, and the city was … Continue reading

The Coast is Queer : an online LGBTQ Literary Fest

The Coast is Queer, the UK’s Brighton & Hove’s festival of LGBTQ+ literature returns in digital form from 5-7 February 2021. Now in its second year, the program of events brings together writers, performers, academics, activists and of course readers, for a weekend of in-conversation events, workshops, films and discussions celebrating queer lives … Continue reading

The Coast is Queer : Queer literary Festival Feb 2021

At one point during the session Queers in the Library, there was a brief discussion of the concept of space itself, that the library can be as much a virtual zone as a material one, a space both physical and theoretical. It seemed to me to sum up the whole of the festival … Continue reading

The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy : reviewed by Jonathan Kemp

Like many others, I discovered the Cockettes through David Weismann and Bill Weber’s wonderful eponymous 2002 documentary (frockumentary?), and like that film, this book is an essential monument to the countercultural force of nature that was the Cockettes, the late 60s/early 70s San Francisco queer drag troupe who took on the tedious establishment of mainstream … Continue reading

The Collection Of Sir Elton John : Goodbye Peachtree Road: a series of Auctions at Christie

Elton John is not only a brilliant musician with such a warm and welcoming personality but he is also unquestionably the most selfless and generous queer man we have ever come across. In the early 1990s he founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) that has raised over $565 million to support HIV-related programs … Continue reading