Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIt’s that time of year again when our inboxes get filled with samples of next years calendars, most of them featuring scantily clad men who haven’t eaten a single carb all year. One of our favorites features Australian Firefighters who for good measure are photographed with their pets, as if there is is not … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe annual New York Taxi Drivers Calendar is a very tongue-in-cheek parody of all those way-too-serious beefcake ones. It also is for a good cause too and too date it has raised over $60,000 for University Settlement, America’s oldest settlement house (1886) serving over 30,000 immigrant and working individuals and families every year with basic services. Created … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWhen queerguru went to school (!) a rugby strip was what we called the kits we donned to play this big butch (and very rough) game that was meant to make men of all us scrawny awkward teenagers. Nowadays however the term means something entirely different as it seems that every rugby team when they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWhen Adrian Lourie first published his gay pin-up zine MEAT in 2010 he said his portraits of men “defy the body shaming that goes on in the gay community. Photographing naked men in bed is a great way to celebrate the bodies of ‘ordinary’ gay men.” Now he has launched his ‘Meat’ NAKED 2018 Calendar once … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterNow here’s an LGBT calendar with a real difference as most of the people featured in it keep on most of their clothes most of the time. In conjunction with The Admiral Duncan, one of the oldest gay bars in London’s Soho, photographer Chris Jepson has produced The Drag Calendar 2018 as a fundraiser for … Continue reading