Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterMother at the Network Theatre ☆☆☆ The Vault Festival London Cursed with the worst of all the Vault Festival venues, away from the main campus, down a side street only accessed via a fire exit that requires a guide to find, the Mother team’s improv skills come in handy in incorporating disgruntled latecomers into … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAnnalise Ophelian’s documentary MAJOR! is an affectionate profile of one of the greatest leaders of the transgender community Major Griffin-Gracy. Known to most people simply as Miss Major or Major she is a larger-than-life old school activist who leads by example helping literally hundreds of trans-women of color, most of whom were strangers. Assigned … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe LOL Word: Coming Out Special ☆☆☆☆ The Vault Festival, London As the number of gay bars in London is decimated and the number of lesbian bars is well, we can’t even do the maths, were there ever enough to decimate? then we are often left asking, where do all the women go on a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOver the past decade there has been a major global photo-storytelling project by 130 people living with HIV and AIDS that successfully set out to de-stigmatize the disease. All of them have participated in workshops led by South African photographer Gideon Mendel, with photo educator Crispin Hughes, and David Gere, director of the Art & … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesBrit queer filmmaker Simon Anderson’s short almost-romantic drama takes place in the idyllic English countryside at night after Sam’s brother’s wedding. The happy couple have gone to bed and as Sam (Matthew Tennyson) is in the garden a night cap , he starts up a conversation with Nick (Nigel Allen) one of his brother’s … Continue reading
