Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEmmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz has added another subject to his series of documentaries on iconic LGBT figures which so far have included Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, Tab Hunter Confidential, I Am Divine, and Vito. This time his subject Allan Carr may be not quite so well known to the general public, but his successful career … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Annie Berman’s feature-length documentary film about obsessions turned out to be something of an obsession itself and clearly, you also have to have an obsessive nature to appreciate it too. It all started in Rome in 1999 with Berman’s first obsession with a lollipop with a picture of the Pope on it. With her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s literally impossible to make any record of the political shenanigans of the last 4 years of the Trump White House without depressing the hell out of all of us. With a spirited but ineffective Democratic Party in opposition, it has seemed that there is no way to stop the sheer wholesale dismantling of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis excellent unique slice of queer history is a film of the very first Gay Parade in San Francisco in 1970. Made by the artist, opera designer and independent filmmaker Ronald Chase,it was believed to have been lost for almost 50 years. Not only has it be found but it is just about to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor those of us in the LGBTQ community in the US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay. … Continue reading
