Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDiana the musical, now available on Netflix, is a filmed version of the Broadway show, currently on at the Longacre Theatre, W 48th St, NY. The story is about Diana, Princess of Wales, the most famous woman of the modern age, and covers her life from age 19, when Diana Spencer first meets Charles, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDonna is a heart-warming documentary that follows trans activist, performer, and former Cockette, Donna Personna, as she learns, later in life, to live her most authentic trans life and to reconnect with her family as a woman. “This is who I want to be and who I want to show the world” Donna was … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLondon’s queer bar/club scene at the beginning of the 1990s entered its most exciting decade to date. The homophobic attitudes of the 1980s had eased somewhat due to the widespread use of ecstasy across the UK during the recent acid house rave years. This combined with a hedonist live-for-the-moment attitude in the queer community … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesNew York’s infamous W. 23rd St. Chelsea Hotel, ‘a rest stop for rare individuals’, reopened earlier this year, completely refurbished into yet another luxury hotel. About 40 of the rooms are still occupied by its original artist/creative tenants, who are protected, rent-stabilized long-term residents. The controversial stop-start remodeling work took about 11 years … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEl Houb (The Love) is a tense family melodrama set within the Dutch-Moroccan community in Holland. Successful young businessman Karim (Fahd Larhzaoui) and his Ghanian boyfriend Kofi (Emmanuel Boafo) are in a state of undress at Karim’s smart apartment when Karim’s father Abbas (Slimane Dazi), a postman, delivers a package and sees Karim in … Continue reading