Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesHaving directed/produced two major queer documentaries in the past : The Cockettes (2002) and We Were Here (2011), Emmy Award nominated filmmaker David Weissman has now created a documentary storytelling project focused on older gay men. In each of his ‘Conversations With Gay Elders’ Weissman conducts interviews with gay men in their 70’s as they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques‘It makes you realise how thin the scab over homophobia really is when it doesn’t take much to pick through it’ so said Award-Winning gay playwright Terrence McNally when religious fanatics scared the Manhattan Theater Club into cancelling the run of his play. The year was 1998 and the play was ‘Corpus Christi’ which depicted Jesus … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe overwhelming feeling you take away from Fiona Cunningham-Reid’s profile on Dawn O’Donnell the Australian lesbian businesswoman who was partly responsible for making Sydney such a gay destination, was the fact that she was a thoroughly unpleasant person. This very fierce silver-haired butch dyke initially made quite a lot of money through real estate investments … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Terrence Crawford’s stunning documentary debut is an impressive eye-opening investigation of a resurgence of crystal meth addiction in New York’s gay community. His non-judgemental revelations depict a scene that appears to be alarming to us in the outside, but from his series of highly personal interviews with current and past addicts, the overwhelming … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn the opening scenes of Moscow-born filmmaker Alla Kovgan ‘s debut film Cunningham, we hear the man himself slightly piqued as he insists to a radio interview he is neither a avant-garde or a modern dance choreographer He is, he states firmly, just a dancer. It’s not a question of modesty but more a frustration … Continue reading
