Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIt’s sad enough whenever there is a ‘death’ in our LGBTQ community but it’s particularly wretched when one is taken way before their time. It has just been announced that Simon Dunn, the Australian rugby player, activist, and former bobsledder has passed away at age 35. Dunn was the first openly gay man to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterGina Lollobrigida, the fabulous Italian movie actress who became one of the post-World War II era’s first major European sex symbols, died on Monday in Rome. She was 95. In the 1950’s Lollobrigida emerged as the face of la dolce vita, a siren beckoning Romans to once again indulge, celebrate and embrace. Ms. Lollobrigida … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSo very sad to read of the death of Sir Antony Sher one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of his generation. Sher may have been born in South Africa to Lithuanian-Jewish parents but after he came to London to study drama at the age of 19 in 1968, the Brits claimed him as one … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIt’s with deep sadness that we learn of the death of the English male model, songwriter, and musician. NICK KAMEN this week aged 59. It is just six years after his brother Barry passed away of a heart attack at 52. It is so sad that both left us fat too young. The pair … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe veteran British actress Sylvia Sims has died aged 89, and whilst ‘younger fands’ will remember her playing the Queen Mother opposite Dame Helen Mirren in the 2006 film The Queen, she will always be in Queerguru’s heart and mind for her performance in The Victim in 1961 This British neo noir suspense was a … Continue reading