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Queerguru hangs out with THE PUNK ROCK QUEEN OF THE JEWS (and has a blast!)

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When we first met and interviewed CHEF ROSSI 5 years ago in PTown it was love at 1st sight (for me anyway)). She had just turned her colorful Jewish past into a best selling memoir and hit play that was running at WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER. Quick witted, wickedly funny she talked to QUEERGURU about The Raging Skillet and how as a feminist lesbian punk she just loves to stir it all up

Now she is back with her second memoir THE PUNK ROCK QUEEN OF THE JEWS which she is happy to share is much more R-rated . The woman is unstoppable : chef owner of The Raging Skillet a NY anti-catering company celebrating its 36th year : a writer, author, radio host, screenplay writer and a self confessed loudmouth . Oh yes we forget she is also a queer feminist Hungarian Jewish punk. The book to be published in April is impossible to put down … but meanwhile check out why she had me laughing so much just talking about it



Queerguru’s Steven Bitkower’s Glimpse into Lauderdale Tropical Bear Week

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Queerguru’s newest Contributor is Steven Bitkower a (newish) South Florida resident who is a New York transplant. He tells us he is a man of few words (!) so his first two features for us are videos ….. the first was the recent Miami Winter Party and now this new one, A Glimpse of Lauderdale Tropical Week. And yes if you are wondering who the singer is that he filmed, it is Crystal Waters the dance queen singer of the 1990s whose big hit was Gypsy Woman

 

 

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Steven Bitkower was born in New Jersey and spent 20+ years living in NYC. He now resides in Fort Lauderdale. 
He has a love of dance music and has a history of being a mobile/Club D


Queerguru does some ‘beachcombing’ at The LGBTQ’s National Task Force Annual WINTER PARTY on Miami Beach

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When most of the world is shivering in the freezing weather of February, in Miami we are partying on the beach soaking up rays The 3 Day Event is all for a very good cause ….the LGBTQ National Task Force’s Annual WINTER PARTY that raises critical funds for the LGBTQ movement.

Queerguru despatched our own Club DJ Steven Bitkower  and his twin brother David to record all the fun that hot men in speedos can have in the winter sun.



Queerguru talks with the writers of KISS, MARRY KILL a remarkable queer prison romance based on a true story

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This new UK drama is based on a remarkable true story that we first found very hard to believe  It is the tale of Jay and Paul who are both serving life sentences for homophobic murders. Incredibly, they fall in love and seek permission to marry.

Kiss Marry Kill is an electrifying and intimate story of love and redemption. and this dramatic recreation from award-winning site-specific specialists Dante or Die, reimagines the first same-sex marriage that took place in a UK prison.

Queerguru talks with two of the three writers, James Baldwin and Terry O’Donovan on the eve of a National Tour around the UK performing in chapels

 

20 – 22 March – The Dockyard Church, Sheerness, Kent

16 – 26 April 2024: Stone Nest London

30 April – 4 May 2024 with South Street Reading

10 – 12 May with The Lowry

 

https://danteordie.com/

 



Queerguru talks with the charismatic queer artist CARL HOPGOOD about how his art mirrors his life

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Like Queerguru’s own Editor, CARL HOPGOOD, is a dispaced Brit. He studied at the (legendary) Goldsmiths College in London, and after two solo shows in Mayfair, he ended up in LA inspired by David Hockney’s and his (very homoerotic) A Bigger Splash. It’s a long way from his birthplace in Wales but it gave Hopgood a sense of freedom in both his art and life. He used his experiences and his politics as a queer man to influence his art and highlight social issues through his sculptural pieces that incorporate found objects and neon, all inspired by memories and everyday life. 

One piece demonstrating this is “Just Say Gay,” which grabbed our attention and we knew we needed to know more. Just back from Art Basel Miami Beach where he showed  “Ban Guns Not Books,” a sculpture made from school desks, a neon gun, and neon books, and he is now working on a series of empty chair paintings (“Old empty chairs are not empty in reality, memories always sit there,” he explains). 

Plus filmmaker Kate Rees Davies is finishing a FRAGILE WORLD documentary about his life that releases in 2024. Some of Hopgood’s art can be seen at The Bunker Art Space in LA as part of the prestigious private collection of Beth Rudin Woody and we got to know more of (the charming) Hopgood when we talked to him on Zoom.

 



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