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London Queer Fashion Show : an exhilarating gender-queer extravaganza
Recently we asked Queerguru Contributing Editor and notable style maverick Jonny Ward to check out London Queer Fashion Show, and he hasn’t stopped raving about it since, Here is his report …. There were some incredibly charismatic people walking the runway tonight but the real stars of this show were in the audience. Each…
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Olympia Dukakis : self-styled ‘octogenarian mother-fucker’
Olympia Dukakis was a well respected Broadway actor long before the rest of the world caught up with her when she won an Oscar & Golden Globe for playing Cher’s mother in the movie Moonstruck in 1987. She is actually just 15 years older than her movie daughter who she very famously screamed at in…
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Welcome to Fairyland : Queer Miami Before 1940
Fairyland was a term coined by civic boosters in Miami to establish the city as a resort whose tropical exoticism was linked to the Caribbean. While obviously alluding to the queer connotation, it referenced the tourist fantasies of a place that was somewhat removed from the mundane aspects of everyday life. The book reads like…
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JUDY SHEPARD : There was so much more to Matt than the way he died.
Today marks 22 years since young Matthew Shepard was brutal murdered just for being gay. Since then his remarkable parents have tirelessy worked for a safer LGBTQ Communuty ans in doing so have ensured that we will never ever forget their son Queerguru revisits our exclusive interview with Matthew Shepard’s mother Judy in the…
