Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterDear Evan Hansen may have a sad underlining theme about societal pressures on queer teenagers but this multi-Tony Award-winning musical is such a sheer joy to experience. It started out with its origins in an incident that took place during writer Benj Pasek’s high school years and it takes the notion of “teenage Evan Hansen … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe days of waiting until you were in a seniors home before you put pen to paper and wrote a memoir of your life, are well and truly over. But how old/young can you be when you have lived long enough to have a story to tell? According to British gay Olympic diver Tom … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWe really don’t to upset Glen Close who we believe will always be the definitive Cruella de Vil BUT we are getting quite excited about seeing Disney’s new live-action feature film following the evil exploits of Cruella the villain from “101 Dalmatians’. Queerguru are not the only ones. So too is performer and director … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter“Whitman in the Woods.” marks the debut of the extraordinarily talented Taylor Mac’s project as the first ALL ARTS artist-in-residence. To encourage full creative freedom of expression, ALL ARTS tasked the veteran theater artist with creating video content for the ALL ARTS platforms, but no other parameters were given. In the resulting film, Mac … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWriting a book review of Paul Rudnick’s latest novel is probably a fool’s errand. If you follow his Twitter feed or read his short pieces in The New Yorker, you know that the more outlandish and implausible the premise, the better. I say all of this in a complimentary way. He skewers pop culture and … Continue reading
