Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor Shirin, a twenty-something-year-old angst ridden fashionable Brooklynite, life is mess. We don’t need to feel sorry for her, as she does that so well herself. She is reluctantly breaking up with Maxine her girlfriend and leaving the home they shared with little more than a strapon dildo. She is moving into a shabby squalid … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn Ira Sach’s follow up to his highly acclaimed 2013 hit ‘Keep The Lights On’, love is also extraordinarily wonderful too. It’s the tale of George & Ben a devoted couple who have enjoyed a somewhat glorious life together in Manhattan for the past 39 years. Now that same-sex marriage is legal in NY they decide … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s a sunny Sunday morning in Brooklyn and Mateo wakes his boyfriend Will up with a cup of coffee and a cupcake with single candle alight on top. Today is Will’s 30th birthday and in a few hours their rather wonderful garden apartment will be overflowing with friends at the celebration party they have been … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Charles Dickens published his novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 1843 it’s runaway success was credited with restoring the Christmas season as one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and somberness. Never been out of print since then, this classic tale of finding the good inside even an … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn Ash Chastain’s new comedy drama he has somewhat overloaded the neurotic Petunia family in New York with such a whole textbook of quirks, hangups and affectations that adding all the different story strands together makes for a rather dysfunctional movie. I should quickly add that its not without its charm and has a few … Continue reading
