Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe former Newsweek investigative journalist turned filmmaker David France’s third documentary is one of the most harrowing depictions of contemporary LGBTQ life that we will ever have to sit through. Fortunately France and his team are skilled enough to tell the stories with such heartfelt compassion that we don’t just feel like voyeurs but … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPress play before you start reading HBO have finally thrown their hat into the ring and jumped on the Drag Queen bandwagon with a new reality TV Show of their own. ‘We’re Here’ has just reached our screens a week after TLC had launched Dragnificent! their own makeover reality show with drag queens whizzing … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are the legendary queer charity, protest and street performance organization that uses drag and religious imagery to call attention to sexual intolerance and satirizes issues of gender and morality. It all started in 1976, when a convent of Roman Catholic nuns lent some retired habits to The Sugar Plum … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt should be really no shock to see how amoral the odious lawyer and manipulator extraordinaire Roy Cohn was, but after watching Matt Tyrnauer’s impressive piece of investigation, we realise that most of us never knew the half of it. His time as the lackey and confidente of Senator Joseph McCarthy the self appointed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAbercrombie and Fitch with their preppy clothing had fallen off my radar some years ago, and it wasn’t until I watched Alison Klayman’s intriguing new doc WHITE HOT that I knew their stores were still trading. Klayman traces the rise and fall of the brand which in the 1990s to 2000s was the biggest … Continue reading
