Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe take our hats off to DEKKOO the leading Queer Subscription Service for not only creating a Short Film Challenge but also being generous with donating $10,000 in Cash Prizes. It not only eases some of the hardships caused by the pandemic, but it inspired such wonderful creativity with its Love and Distance competition. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe Online Criminal Queerness Festival brings together renowned queer playwrights from around the world . Produced by the National Queer Theater and Dixon Place who are providing a platform for artists facing censorship, shining a light on critical stories from across the globe. In order to build a truly global queer community, A NYC … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesGymnast, dancer, aerialist and actress Dreya Weber has reunited with her ex-husband the writer and director Ned Farr to make, this their 3rd movie together. The Aeralist is a sequel to their 2006 award-winning film The Gymnast which told the story of the dancing and Vegas acrobatics after-life of a former Olympic hopeful Jane Hawkins … Continue reading
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Five years ago I got to film my very first interview. Talk about starting at the very top as my guest was LARRY KRAMER the legendary outspoken gay activist, playwright, author, film producer, and public health advocate. He was also a personal hero of mine too.
Larry was in Provincetown with his husband the architectural designer David Webster for the screening on a new documentary of his life Larry Kramer in Love and Anger, directed by his friend Jean Carlomusto. Though very frail at the time he generously agreed to the interview that the crew of PTV filmed in his hosts garden.
I was as nervous as hell facing the great man that I had admired from afar for so long. As a AIDS widower I was so indebted for his unceasing work at ACT UP and GMHC to help all of us affected by that epidemic, and as gay man had been so utterly moved by reading The Normal Heart and Faggots.
I needn’t have worried Larry is the most generous of men and never let on if he recognised my total inexperience. I remember distinctly the pleasure I had of making him laugh more than once, and making one of my camera crew cry.
That afternoon will always forever stay with me, and now that it has just been announced that Larry Kramer died today at the age of 84, I’m sharing this interview again to remember (to paraphrase writer/actor David Drake) The Day I Met Larry Kramer. May He Rest In Peace
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe very next day after queer filmmaker Craig Bettendorf and his crew celebrated Treading Yesterday’s world premiere at Dances with Films in Hollywood, the euphoria quickly disappeared. It was the night of the mass-killing at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando. The bitter irony (if that’s the right word) is that ‘Treading Yesterday’ Web Series … Continue reading
