NB This is an interview with a remarkable queer artist that makes art for queer adults.
Daniel Ortiz is a Brooklyn-born queer Artist of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent who is about to participate in ART GAYSEL Miami’s Queerest Art Fair that is making its PROVINCETOWN Debut. He has really been able to hone in on a style of art that truly represents him as a gay Latino. It has not been an easy road of acceptance, but he has managed to actively pursue an art career and has now introduced “Art by Dan” my very first own online shop and brand.
On the eve of the new Fair he talked with QUEERGURU about how he hopes his work will inspire and impact people, especially members of the LGBTQ community
This memoir is of the extraordinary frenetic life of a skinny queer kid who left his home in the grim North of England to ‘find himself in London‘. In the 1980s and 1990s he found himself as a central figure in a colorful larger-than-life hedonistic queer group of non-binary drag queens and soon become known as the Queen of Soho.
He ran Trannyshack his own club night at Madame Jojo’s THE place to party and be seen. There was however another side to Hodge, now known as Dusty O, as at the height of the AIDS pandemic he took a day job as a service worker at The London Lighthousethe purpose-built leading AIDS Hospice, It set him aside from many of his celebrity buddies, and it grounded him enough to be able to move forward to his present life as a very successful artist
Queerguru talked with the disarmingly charming Hodges about this biography that has been getting rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s not just the joyous tale of Hodge’s fascinating roller-coast life but it is a remarkable and essential record queer history of one of the most tumultuous times of our Community’s history.
Tennesse Williams will always be a favored son in PTown where he often summered & wrote some of his best work. The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival is about to hold its 17th Edition where it celebrates his work with some extraordinary stunning re-interpretations of some of his most well-known pieces and introduces some unknown gems.
We talked with a very excited Curator/Co-Founder David Kaplan on what goodies we can expect this year.
Donna Vivino has been a star of Broadway and Off-Broadway since she was just 8 years old and landed her very first part in the original production of Les Miserables. There’s been no looking back for her since then. Her resume includes roles in Cats,Wicked, Next To NormalHairspray, Finks, Grease etc etc. She has fashioned all of her past in her new cabaret show entitled ‘Confessions of Broadway Baby‘ which she talked about with Queerguru on the eve of opening in the Post Office Cabaret in PTown
EDIE is back to her home from home with q brand new show EDIE with a D appearing all summer at Provincetown’s Post Office Cafe and Cabaret. It’s been 20 years since she first took the town by storm and since then has been in a Broadway Show and also was the star MC in Cirque du Soleil ‘s Zumanity in Las Vegas for several years. Queerguru caught up with this ultimate showgirl to find out about the new show …… and of course catch up with gossip too..
The interview conducted by Roger Walker-Dack was filmed on the stage of the Post Office Cabaret by Rik Ahlberg and Dan Desjardins
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