Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe Brazilian Portuguese word ‘saudade’ means a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It is also the title to a new romantic piece from the acclaimed NY based Canadian choreographer Joshua Beamish that is having its NY premiere at BAM this weekend as part of the 2017 Next … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterqueerguru’s London correspondent fresh from a screening at the BF1 London Film Festival of Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is now adamant that this will be the year that Annette Bening will finally snatch up the Best Actress Oscar. In a tour-de-force performance Bening plays fading Hollywood star Gloria Grahame in this true stranger-than-fiction … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWith the idiot POTUS too busy on the golf course to do anything at all about all the desolate and stranded people in Puerto Rico struggling to survive, others have thankfully stepped up to the plate. Lin-Manuel Miranda the creator and star of Hamilton has created and just released, “Almost Like Praying,” a song to raise … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe BBC in London have been making a whole slew of excellent queer TV programs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act — which partially decriminalized homosexual acts between men in the UK. Finally they are showing a series on eight short films called QUEERS in the US on their BBC … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThose nice people at Virgin Holidays conducted a new survey on how different people were treated in vacation where they spoke to 1,000 LGBT couples and 1,000 straight couples, and the results are both sad and shocking. One of the things that they uncovered was that only five per cent of LGBT couples are comfortable showing affection … Continue reading
