Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAlthough we see a great deal of the legendary shoe designer Manolo Blahnik in this enchanting profile on him, he evidently had only agreed to the project with director Michael Roberts if he kept the cameras primarily on the impressive list of fashion heavyweights and celebrities who lined up to testify that Blahnik is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato start this latest documentary of theirs on the celebrated and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 with the scene of the right wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms angrily pleading with the Senate to stop the public funding of the latest Mapplethorpe Exhibition. The fact it didn’t actually receive any monies … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe celebrated gay poet William Meredith was 52 years old when he met and fell in love with poetry student Richard Harteis, less than half his age, in 1972. In the early days of their relationship Meredith’s professional reputation continued to grow as he hiked up countless of honors as Poetry Consultant to the Library of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPat Dwyer and Stephen Mosher met when they were both college students at the hometown University of North Texas back in 1985. It was, they both fervently claim, a case of love at first sight, and they have rarely been apart since then. And now 25 years later and living in New York, they want … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s hard to grasp the fact that Matthew Shepard should have been celebrating his 37th birthday this year if it hadn’t been for the tragic events of that fateful night 16 years ago on that desolate prairie outside of Laramie in Wyoming. So many of us still think of him as the slight short blond-haired … Continue reading
