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The legendary MICHOU who inspired La Cage Aux Folles has died

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Just two days after QUEERGURU interviewed Brit actor MICHAEL MATUS who is about to star in the latest incarnation of the gay classic comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, the very man who inspired the original has died in Paris aged 88. The legendary singer/drag performer/night club owner MICHOU was known as the Blue Prince on … Continue reading



The Man who was longing to become a  God : we mourn the passing of THIERRY MUGLER

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  From a very early age, inspired by German mythology, Manfred Thierry Mugler went on a quest for perfection. Born in Strasbourg on December 21st, 1948, his body language led him to become a ballet dancer and join the Ballets du Rhin at age 14 and attend Strasbourg Decorative Arts School with the firm intention … Continue reading



The queer Brit Auteur Terrence Davies who excelled in personal film-making, and who treated cinema as artistry has Died

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  The gay British auteur Terrence Davies who always reached back into the past for the ideas of his films, has just died aged 77   His output was not prolific but it contained some of the very best quintessentially British cinema in the past 50 years.  Davies’s breakthrough in 1973 was ‘The Terrence Davies Trilogy.‘  … Continue reading



Tony Award winner Brian Bedford dies

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The great British classical stage Tony Award winning actor  Brian Bedford who was a star on and off-Broadway for years, has died at the age of 80. He was a protégé of John Gielgud and a theater-school classmate of Alan Bates, Albert Finney and Peter O’Toole, but because he performed only occasionally in movies and on television … Continue reading



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