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 queertiquesMargaret is a big lumpy mess. She’s arrived in Manhattan and is homeless and jobless and has decided to resort to being a hooker to make ends meet. The trouble is that this overweight unkempt lesbian seems to have little experience in sexual matters let alone trying to make a living from providing a service … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesElizabeth Bishop was something of a self-absorbed cold fish. When she finishes her tenure as US Poet Laureate in 1950, she was 40 years old, alone in N.Y., and suffering with ‘writers block’. At the suggestion of her friend and fellow poet Robert Lowell she decides to go to South America for a long vacation. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAbdellatif Kechiche’s searingly beautiful story of two young women falling in and out of love with each other has got the Critics all riled up. Especially the heterosexual male ones who who have been almost unanimous in declaring this movie that includes long drawn out scenes of the most explicit lesbian sex as a ‘masterpiece’. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is the story of a mid-life crisis where a marriage between a lawyer and an ex-real estate house flipper turned housewife who live with their two kids in a comfortable affluent NY suburb starts to get stale. The housewife busy with running the home, taking Pilate classes with her friends, and hanging out with … Continue reading
