Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterGregory Spears’s critically acclaimed opera Fellow Travellers based on Thomas Mallon’s novel about gay love in the notorious McCarthy Era is having its Florida debut thanks to the Florida Grand Opera. It is set against a background of homophobic paranoia in the 1950s’ where gay men and women were publicly hounded and humiliated in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterFacing the AIDS crisis and an indifferent mainstream culture at best, an outright hostile one at worst, L.A.’s Gen X LGBTQ+ community found a home for themselves in the performance spaces, and on the dancefloors of clubs like Jewel’s Catch One, Arena, Club Chico, The Palms, Paradise Ballroom, Outer Limits, and Circus. While many … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe multi-award-winning play that The Telegraph called “perhaps the most American play of this century so far“ is coming to Boston’s South End. Matthew Lopez‘s “The Inheritance” brilliantly transposes E.M. Forster’s great classic novel Howards End to 21st century New York. It examines love between gay men in contemporary New York a generation after … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterONE Archives Foundation, the oldest active LGBTQ organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world., is excited to launch “Days of Rage,” a web-based, multimedia exhibit featuring newly digitized LGBTQ+ activist posters from ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. This exhibit features 30+ archival posters with … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLet’s talk a bit about Pangina Heals, stage name of Pan Pan Narkpasert, Asia’s most famous drag queen, the RuPaul of Thailand, a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race Thailand (2 seasons), and who just competed in “RuPaul’s Drag Race: UK vs. the World” (can we squeeze another “RuPaul” in this sentence?)… … Continue reading
