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  • Turn Back Time to when LGBT literature was pulp fiction

    Turn Back Time to when LGBT literature was pulp fiction

      In the week that queerguru is fully immersed in the Miami Book Fair which has some excellent LGBT programming  our coverage will follow next week), we take a look back at  the exploitative “literature” of the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s.  At the time this ‘pulp fiction’ detailing the seedy underbelly of homosexual life…

  • Hard Christmas Rock with Alan Cumming

    Hard Christmas Rock with Alan Cumming

    You know it’s beginning to feel a bit like Christmas when notices of the first of the holiday concerts start to trickle into queerguru’s mailbox. The multi-talented (and totally delightful) Tony Award winner Alan Cumming is taking a break from touring with his show Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, to have a one-night-stand with the…

  • Trans Lives Matter

    Trans Lives Matter

    Transgender Awareness Week is a time for transgender people and their allies to take action and bring attention to the community by educating the public and advancing advocacy around the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that transgender people face.  During the Week individuals and organizations around the country participate to help raise the visibility…

  • La Streisand is magical on Netflix

    La Streisand is magical on Netflix

      Barbra Striesand waited some 53 years to come back to perform in Miami after her debut at the Eden Roc in 1963.  It was a stop on her 2016 tour, and was where Netflix filmed the show for a TV Special that is being aired on November 22nd 2017 .  “The Music…The Mem’ries…The Magic!” …