QUEERGURU

Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews

  • THE IMPOSTER

    This is the implausible true story about a young dark French man passing himself off as a blond American teenager who had been missing for some years. I actually remember reading this story in The New Yorker a while back and was flabbergasted then, but now seeing the whole scenario skillfully re-enacted on the big…

  • THIS IS WHAT LOVE IN ACTION LOOKS LIKE

    1n 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder.  Later that same year ‘LOVE IN ACTION’ was founded by an evangelical Christian ministry specifically ‘to restore those trapped in sexual and relational sin through the power of Jesus Christ’ i.e. to forcible make gay men straight.  As the oldest established ‘ex-gay’ organization…

  • THE VOW

    Luck is unpredictable.  Take this weekend, when on Friday 13th I became a US Citizen (outstanding good luck) and then on Saturday and Sunday I saw back to back movies starring Channing Tatum (exceptional bad luck).   Ex male stripper/fashion model/dancer Mr Tatum got his big break as a disadvantaged dancer in ‘Step Up’ and has…

  • MAGIC MIKE

    There is no magic or tricks of any kind in this extremely disappointing monotonous flick about a bunch of male strippers in Florida that much respected filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has obviously made for pubescent teenage girls.  (And maybe very bored housewives)  Starring pretty boy Channing Tatum who with his all American boy look proves he…