QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
-
Branden & James: A (rather wonderful) Christmas Gift
One of the annual treats of Queerguru’s summers up in PTown, Mass is that we get to hang out with the talented vocal and cello duo Branden and James. This July it was in bed. Well, to be truthful they were under the covers in their bedroom at the Pilgrim House Hotel and we…
-
Die Surely : just another queer Thanksgiving-from-hell story
If you have just been to one of those never-again family Thanksgivings from hell, then you will so relate to this rather wacky short film Die Surely It’s the story of when gender-nonconforming Shirley Sadstone, crashes Thanksgiving dinner to the chagrin of the holier-than-thou family members. Pleasantries are quickly pushed aside when Shirley arrives…
-
Queerguru reviews Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST one of the best family dramas of the year
Kenneth Branagh’s heart-wrenching family drama based loosely on his own childhood in the capital of Northern Ireland is a very personal account of growing up in the midst of a civil war. Set in 1969 when Branagh was just nine years old and when the violent conflict between the Protestant and Catholic populations was…
-
Poland’s own “Stonewall” and how the Polish LGBTQ community are fighting back
This new powerful I-D Video from director/producer Isolde Penwarden takes us inside the very unsettling situation of the LGBTQ community in Poland which over the past two years has seen its rights stripped away. In the east of the country, their very existence is outlawed with the creation of so many official LGBTQ-free zones. …
