Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen celebrated British Author Christopher Isherwood met a particularly young handsome man in his speedos on a Santa Monica beach in the 1954, he was already 48 years old. The boy, barely 18, and looking even younger, was Don Bachardy. And against all surmountable odds the mutual attraction between these two extremely different men, developed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe cinematic fascination with The Beat Generation continues regardless. Following on the heals of Walter Salles take on Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ which the Critics were quick to dismiss when it recently had a Limited Release in US theaters, we have this new movie which, set in the mid 1940’s is essentially a pre-quel to the movement that was … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis wonderfully moving documentary follows the progress of Gene Robinson who in 2004 was elected as the 1st openly Gay priest Episcopalian Bishop. In 2008 he also became the first Bishop to be banned from attending the powerful Lambeth Conference (the highest forum of the Anglican Church) in London but he traveled there anyway in the hope of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTab Hunter was …. and still is at age 83 years-old …a stunningly handsome man. When he was a teen idol in the 1950’s he was the ultimate clean-cut all-American boy and seemingly butter would not melt in his mouth. He was Warner Brothers Studio’s biggest box office movie star for at least three of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe late great Charles Nelson Reilly had a tough start to life: a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a loud-mouth racist mother and he was the only gay kid on the block in the Bronx back in the 1940’s. Who would have guessed then that he would have ended up as Tony Winning Actor, acclaimed Broadway … Continue reading