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Gene Malin : Queen of the Pansy Craze
For a few short years in the 1930’s when Prohibition meant that drinking was very much on the down-low, one group of performers experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Up until then much of the public image of gay people was still limited to the various drag balls…
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Barbie & Ken ….and his boyfriend …..living it up in style.
queerguru first came across photographer David Parise’s work one Sunday afternoon at Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road Collectables Market a couple of years ago, and instantly fell in love with his whole series of vintage Barbie & Ken pictures. In fact ‘Boys at Sunset’ above is the first one we purchased that day. Parise had been living in…
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Dustin Lance Black’s ‘must see’ new LGBT TV series
ABC TV have just released the first look of what will probably be the most important LGBT TV series of 2017. ‘When We Rise’ tells the history of the gay rights movement, starting with Stonewall in 1969 and chronicling the personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and…
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Caroline Giraud-Sukornyk talks about her passion for style
Caroline Giraud-Sukornyk will not be happy unless you fall in love. Not with her, we will quickly add, but with one/some of the treasures that she has curated in La Vie en Blanc her remarkable interiors store that queerguru has just stumbled over in Fort Lauderdale. She’s very firm with any customers who are in…
