Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSome 13 years ago Jay Foxworthy and Bryan Leffew became good friends, fell in love and had a Civil Union. Along the way, they fostered and adopted Daniel and his sister Selena. Then when gay marriage was legalized in California in 2008, Jay and Bryan got hitched at City Hall in San Francisco. Both men … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Comedy Writer Paul Horan was in L.A. in the late 1990’s he was asked who were the latest comedy sensation back in his home country New Zealand, and without a single hesitation he replied it was a pair of middle-aged yodelling lesbian twins The questioner just walked away horrified because on paper The Topp … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEven with the major advances that the LGBT community has made in the past few decades it is still not blessed with an over-abundance of its own heroes/role models. It therefore comes as no surprise that when one rises up and is blessed with an incredible innate talent to articulate how many of us feel, and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s not unusual for comedians to use their stand up routines as a substitute for a session with their therapists as they use their audience to unburden all their woes too. Tig Notaro however went much further than most when she went on stage to do her usual act one night in the Largo Club … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIf you were one of those people who thought that George Takei aka Sulu had retired along with the USS Enterprise over 20 years ago, you would be greatly mistaken. Since then, and particularly after he eventually officially ‘came out’ as a gay man in 2005, it’s been nigh on impossible to avoid seeing him … Continue reading