For the latest queerguru reports on London’s burgeoning alternative drag scene which has being setting the capital’s performance scene alight and making the East End THE destination for the very best in entertainment, we meet a real life religious icon. The Virgin Xtravaganzah aka Mary, Mother of God is the wickedly funny persona of the very talented Drew Caiden, and via Facetime he shared what life on earth is like for Mary these days.
The interview was recorded for queerguru reports on PTV.
It is not often that you get to talk to an out and proud queer Iraqi drag queen / activist / writer / actor / journalist but we did just that. London based Amrou Al-Kahdi aka Glamrou the founder and star of Denim the drag superstar group dragged himself away from an Anti-Trump Protest outside Houses of Parliament to talk to queerguru about how being true to oneself has now taken on such a greater sense of urgency these days.
This disarmingly charming and very articulate man had a lot to say in this exclusive interview we filmed for PTV.
For our next queerguru reports for P.T.V. Channel 99 we got to interview a real religious icon, Mary Mother of God herself who is now living in London and known as The Virgin Xtravaganzah. She tells Mary’s story through a whole series of pop songs re-written with some scandalous lyrics. Here then is a teaser trailer of our report that will be broadcast on P.T.V very soon.
2016 was a particularly golden year for the number of LGBTQ documentaries that found their way onto our screens. From movies that looked back at our history and iconic cultural figures in our past, to the ones that focused on the everyday struggles of queer youth coming to terms with their identity and fitting in within our community, to others who discovered larger-than-life activists that are making such a difference. For every one of the excellent films that made our list, we had to leave dozens out that so deserved both our attention and acknowledgement. Queer cinema has never been stronger.
Here then our TOP TEN PICKS of the BEST LGBTQ DOCUMENTARIES of 2016 (and all but No 10 are available on streaming platforms everywhere) filmed for P.T.V.
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queerguru reviews Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) sophomore movie which is an adaption of Julian Barnes’s best-selling award-winning novel The Sense of An Ending. With a really stellar Brit cast led by Oscar winner Jim Broadbent and Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling this quintessentially English story about regret and remission is a wee gem of a movie
