Since the 1940’s Cherry Grove, New York a small village on FIRE ISLAND has been a vacation paradise for the LGBTQ Community. The Cherry Grove Archives Collection a non-profit organisation was established to record the community’s history and is currently presenting an Exhibit SAFE/HAVEN; GAY LIFE IN THE 1950’s at Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Wilton Manors.
Gay8 Festival in Miami’s Little Havana Calle Ocho is the largest Hispanic/Latino/Latinx LGBTQ hosted festival in the nation and is probably the very best one too QUEERGURU was there yesterday for this 5th Annual Event …… and it seemed that the entire local LGBTQ Community was there too. Somehow we squeezed it all into an 8 minute video. Music by Pepper MaShay
Brit queer actor/performer/director Denholm Spurr is no stranger to our pages as he has starred in so many of London’s most successful queer films/theatre like THE CHEMSEX MONOLOGUES, THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GRINDR, Happily Ever Poofter and currently in NO SWEAT at Pleasance Theatre. Queerguru finally caught up with him to talk about all this ….. and much more
Joshua Grannell is better known as Peaches Christ a multi-talented underground drag performer, writer, actor, filmmaker who has become a major force in San Francisco’s alternative nightlife.
With an irrepressible; sense of humor and a real passion for his work, he makes for a totally charming interview as QUEERGURU discovered when we tracked him down to talk about his show with the legendary #MinkStole called IDOL WORSHIP at And What? Queer Arts Festival in London..
Now on the eve of its release in the US by Music Box Films, and next month in the UK by Peccadillo Pictures, QUEERGURU talked to him his wonderful movie which is the first with an LGBT storyline to come out of Georgia (the country)
P.S. You can read QUEERGURU’s full review of the movie HERE