Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBody Talk ☆☆☆☆ Full Disclosure Theatre The Vault Festival, London Body Talk opens with three semi naked bodies standing on stage. Before the story starts their bodies are already telling tales on them. Those stories hang in the air around them like the worst kind of gossip even before we hear a word of David … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOver My Dad’s Body ☆☆☆☆ The Vault Festival When Simon David opens by mounting a glittery ladder and singing a big brassy rendition of ‘I’m gay, I’m gay, I’m gay’ containing the line ‘I don’t have a personality – beyond my sexuality’ it does create a certain set of expectations about what is about … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’ culture, the 1950s’ became one of the most homophobic times in American history. McCarthy and his people created a world in which gay people were persecuted and ostracized both at work and at home. After President Eisenhower’ issued an Executive ORder “sexual perversion” it became grounds for the investigation … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIf you are a subscriber of QUEERGURU and have watched any of our exclusive filmed interviews you cannot have failed to notice that our Editor always wears a hat. Sometimes it iss a Fedora, Trilby, Porkpie, Panama, Bowler, Boater, Newsboy or even the QUEERGURU baseball cap. BUT he is never bareheaded. So the discovery … Continue reading
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In 1988 Margaret Thatcher introduced a hate-filled anti-LGBTQ Law called CLAUSE 28 which was to effectively ban the promotion of homosexuality. Even now some 30 years later it’s left a bitter memory within the LGBTQ Community for its sheer pernisciousness. Brit filmmaker Joseph Wilson‘ talks to QUEERGURU about his short dystopian film that follows a group of unapologetically queer warriors forced to flee the UK at that time.
