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Safe/Haven: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove
Thanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’ culture, the 1950s’ became one of the most homophobic times in American history. McCarthy and his people created a world in which gay people were persecuted and ostracized both at work and at home. After President Eisenhower’ issued an Executive ORder “sexual perversion” it became grounds for the investigation…
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The FatHatter makes Hats that Makes A Man
If you are a subscriber of QUEERGURU and have watched any of our exclusive filmed interviews you cannot have failed to notice that our Editor always wears a hat. Sometimes it iss a Fedora, Trilby, Porkpie, Panama, Bowler, Boater, Newsboy or even the QUEERGURU baseball cap. BUT he is never bareheaded. So the discovery…
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Queer auteur JOSEPH WILSON talks about IL WIDNA his dystopian take on Thatcher’s Anti-LGBTQ Laws
In 1988 Margaret Thatcher introduced a hate-filled anti-LGBTQ Law called CLAUSE 28 which was to effectively ban the promotion of homosexuality. Even now some 30 years later it’s left a bitter memory within the LGBTQ Community for its sheer pernisciousness. Brit filmmaker Joseph Wilson‘ talks to QUEERGURU about his short dystopian film that follows…
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All Man : The Story of the Iconic International Male Catalogue
In the 1970’s when gay porn was still very rare and not easy to access, lots of men, gay and straight, found what they were looking for scantily clad on the pages of The International Male Catalogue. With its army of clean-cut fresh faced-man with their six-pack abs and even with their very generous…
