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  • Fanny Cradock : How we Brits Used To Cook

    Fanny Cradock : How we Brits Used To Cook

    In the 1950’s and right up to the mid 1970’s there was only one cookery queen who ruled Britain’s TV programs : Fanny Cradock.  She pre-dated all the celebrity chefs, even Julia Child, and was quintessentially English right down to her snobby accent and the dreadful fussy dresses that she wore to cook. For the…

  • Happy 70th Birthday Freddie Mercury

    Happy 70th Birthday Freddie Mercury

    I’m playing my role in history Looking to find my goal Taking in all this misery But giving it all my soul  …… so sang the late great Freddie Mercury in ‘Made in Heaven’. Two days shy of what would have been his 70th birthday, here’s a look at the many faces of Freddie who…

  • Miami’s O Cinema is a Hotbed of Sex

    Miami’s O Cinema is a Hotbed of Sex

    Sometimes queerguru can sort of predict the future.  We knew back in March when we wrote about Dan Savage’s Hump! Film Festival that was about to tour the U.S. that our friends at O Cinema, Miami’s cutting edge art house would insist on playing host for a week, and they have from September 16th.  Hump!…

  • queerguru weekly barometer

    queerguru weekly barometer

    Each week queerguru takes a brief look at some of the big things that have made us smile and get a real ‘high five’ aka the ice cream emoji, and at the other end of the scale, those things that have really pissed us off and get a very big thumbs downs aka the famous…