Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterAn exhibit of superb works of the legendary queer artist JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT at the Brant Foundation in NY is now ONLINE in a Virtual Gallery. Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. He first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe Sarabande Foundation is the legacy of the late creative genius ALEXANDER McQUEEN. He started it in 2007 and it is named after his Spring Collection of that year. Sarabande was established because McQueen passionately believed that creative minds with the potential to push boundaries should be given the same opportunities he’d enjoyed. The … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterQueerguru first reviewed Alexis Gregory’s stunning verbatim theatre piece RIOT ACT back in 2018 (https://bit.ly/3AJm1f5), and we even interviewed him too https://queerguru.com/queer-writer-performer-alexis-gregory-talks-about-riot-act/. Now after a long journey, this piece based on Gregory’s interview with one of the only remaining Stonewall survivors – the 1969 NYC riot that kick-started the gay rights movement, will now … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterArmistead Maupin’s beloved Tales Of The City started out as a newspaper column over 40 years ago. They morphed into 9 novels, two television mini-series, and then in 2011 into a musical. With a score by Jake Shears (the lead singer of Scissor Sisters, and John “JJ” Garden, and book by Tony Award winner … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterQueerguru is always up for finding new ways to celebrate our queerness, so we’re really happy to come across the work of Daniel Samuel Calderon. He is a queer Filipino-Canadian theatre artist based out of Vancouver where he is an emerging actor, director, theatre maker and filmmaker In 2018 he created his solo drag-clown … Continue reading
