Author queerguruPosted on Categories UncategorizedOn December 1st the Wrightwood 659 Gallery in Chicago is commemorating WORLD AIDS DAY with a new exhibit ‘The Marks We Leave Behind.’ Its the iconic “Icarian Series” by San Francisco-based artist and HIV/AIDS activist Daniel Goldman and is a memorial in the form of a ghost. The abrasion, sweat, and heat of countless … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories Uncategorized1 Comment on Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ALEXIS GREGORY’s FUTUREQUEER : hard to categorize but easy to find compellingFUTUREQUEER ⚝⚝⚝ Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel The entire world is queer. No, it’s not Compton Street on a Friday night. It’s 2069 and Alexis Gregory is imagining a queer future, through the scattered shards of light from a disco ball, at the Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel. The light is not always precisely … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories UncategorizedScala!!! Or to give it its full title ‘The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced A Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits’ pretty much does what it says on the tin, with the kind of love and reverence that you can only have if you were … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories UncategorizedThe copla is a form of Spanish popular genre of risqué cabaret songs which had its heyday in the 1930s. The lyrics often feature marginalized characters, including prostitutes, sailors, escaped convicts, gypsies, and so on, and have themes based on the “illegitimacy of all relationships outside the recognized heterosexual marriage” (i.e., mistreated women, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories UncategorizedWhen our Editor received screening links of PATTERNS a teenage gay TV drama series from Aurelia Pictures he commissioned one of the Queerguru team to review it. The very next day he returned the links saying that the programs were completely banal : both the script and the acting were so … Continue reading
