Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt may have slipped your mind that this week the UK is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the legalization of same sex marriage . (Well not all of the ‘British Isles’ as it took the Parliament of ultra conservative Northern Ireland another 6 years to join the club). Anyway the BBC is marking this … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSaying that this riveting telling of the life of Billie Holiday is our second favourite music documentary of the past few years does not seem like the compliment it is until we remind you that our favourite was the sublime Amazing Grace centered on Aretha Franklin. Whereas Amazing Grace focuses on the vocal … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen the camera starts rolling on Birds of the Borderlands it is initially hard to work out if Australian genderqueer filmmaker /activist Jordan Bryon is foolhardy or brave or equally part of both. Bryon who prefers to use they, them, their pronouns on a whim took it upon themself to up and move to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs part of the celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, NITV an Australian TV Channel commissioned filmmaker Adrian Russell Wills to make Black Divaz. This totally exhilarating hour-long documentary followed six rather fabulous indigenous Drag Queens as they assembled to take part in the very first Miss First Nations Drag Queen competition. This … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis rather wonderful new documentary by Bruce Ashley and Michael Donald is the remarkable story of how in the 1980’s a very small group of young people in a mere 18 months redefined a whole generation, the effects of which can still be felt today. It is a very quintessentially English story set against … Continue reading
