The great British abstract painter Sir Howard Hodgkin has died aged 84 years old just a couple of weeks before a major show of his portraits opens at the National Portrait Gallery in London on 23 March. Hodgkin was recognized as a central figure in contemporary art for over half a century, and the … Continue reading
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
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 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
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