• Free Guided Tour to discover London’s Queer History

    Free Guided Tour to discover London’s Queer History

      The first ever Gay Pride in London may not have taken place until 1972 ……. three years after both the Stonewall Riots and the legalization of homosexuality in the UK, but the city is steeped in queer history.  The best way to take a crash course in this is to sign up for one…

  • QUEER NATURE Celebrating diversity in art, plants and fungi @ KEW’S ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS

    QUEER NATURE Celebrating diversity in art, plants and fungi @ KEW’S ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS

    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in southwest London houses the “largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world” Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens.n The library…

  • Identfying the  LGBTQ+ community by Flags

    Identfying the LGBTQ+ community by Flags

      We always tell our heteronormative friends and allies that there may not be an actual exam to pass to be gay BUT we are expected to absorb an awful lot of additional knowledge. Take flags for example.  The original rainbow flag was created in 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay…

  • OUT ON FILM Atlanta  : Queerguru’s Top Picks of Must See Films

    OUT ON FILM Atlanta : Queerguru’s Top Picks of Must See Films

    The 35th Edition of Out On Film, Georgia’s gay film festival in Atlanta  is now underway. The next 10 days celebration of LGBTQ stories and artists including narrative features, documentaries, short films, and premieres.  It may be one of the oldest queer film fests but it is still one of the hippest go-to-events of Queerguru’s year. Actually…