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Joel Hernandez : The Man Behind The Mask(s)
I don’t think we have seen or even thought about papier-mache since we left school many (many ) years ago, unlike queer Mexican artist Joel Hernandez, who is just one of the contemporary craftspeople using papier-mâché in new and provocative ways. Hernandez now lives in SF, but en route there, he lived in Texas…
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Queerguru checks out TWO QUEER PHOTO EXHIBITIONS at the fabulous GETTY CENTER in LA
The fabulous GETTY CENTER in LA is spoiling us as it currently has TWO must-see exhibitions of queer photography. $3 Bill celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ+ artists in the last century. From pioneers who explored sexual and gender identity in the first half of the 20th century, through the liberation movements and the horrors of the…
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Australian singer/songwriter STEVIE BANKSTER thinks he is Damaged Goods …but we are not so sure!
In QUEERGURU’s intray this morning was this new music track from Stevie Bankster a queer singer/songwriter fom Melbourne Australia. He told us his brand new single, Damaged Goods, which is out now, is a shoutout to those of us who’ve carried trauma from past relationships into new ones – even when the new person hasn’t…
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The LONDON DYKE MARKET has its 2nd Birthday
(A very young) Queerguru was so thrilled when we reclaimed the word queer for ourselves in the 1990’s transforming a historic anti-gay slur into a term of empowerment and pride. What we hadn’t realised until we were doing some research this morning was that gay women were ahead of men. In the early 1970’s they…
