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Banished by the Bigots of YOU TUBE …. but with your continued support QUEERGURU is Bouncing Back
Last week in a rare opinion piece, QUEERGURU raised its grave concern about how queer sites like ours are now the target of self-appointed censors of public morality who are determined to inflict their personal (religious) beliefs on the world at large. We pointed out that this so reeks of rampant homophobia, something we…
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Karla Murphy talks about LOVE JAMIE : a remarkable touching story about Jamie Diaz a 65 years old transwoman prison inmate
Jamie Diaz is a 65-year-old trans woman and artist who has spent nearly 30 years in a men’s prison in Texas. Using the limited paint supplies available to her and brushes she fashions from her own hair, Jamie creates bold and graphic paintings awash in color and symbolism. In 2013, Gabriel Joffe came across…
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Tom Zimberoff : Drag/Strip™ ….. American Kabuki
Tom Zimberoff was born in Los Angeles, a child of the Fifties. He was raised there and in Las Vegas, Nevada. As proficient with a clarinet as with a camera, he succumbed to the lure of photography while studying music at the USC School of Performing Arts. “Portrait photography,” he says, “is a…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE GREATEST an award winning drama about queer life in the 1960s
Before 1969’s Stonewall riots, queer life in New York was largely quite brutal. Homophobia was rife. The NYPD regularly raided the few gay bars that existed, harassing, beating and arresting patrons on trumped-up charges, often releasing their names to the press and their families, outing them to cause maximum distress. This frequently led…
