Usually every week queerguru takes a brief look at some of the big things that have made us smile and get a real ‘high five’ aka the ice cream emoji, and at the other end of the scale, those things that have really pissed us off and get a very big thumbs downs aka the famous ‘poop’ emoji. However we put this on a brief hiatus since the fateful Presidential election as we have been overly obsessed with the T word. We still are, but nevertheless we have made a New Year Resolution to keep him out of our barometer and focus on other queer matters both good and bad for 2017.

This week’s include :

 

 

 

 

Necco’s Sweethearts candy advert celebrates the relationship of Jack and George who met in 1961 and have been together ever since for the past 56 years.. They were one of the first same-sex couples to wed in 2015 after the historic Supreme Court ruling.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia who is seemingly one of the few politicians in power these days with any moral fiber, issued an executive order banning state contracts with firms that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

 

 

Kudos to gay Brazilian Air Force student Talles de Oliveira Faria who  decided to bring attention to the bullying he received while at the Aeronautic Technology Institute of the Air Force by accepting his degree in a fabulous red dress and heels.

Wanna go to bed with hunky Tom Hardy?  Now you really can. Check out how here.

Maybelline have become the latest cosmetic house to choose a man to spearhead their latest campaign and they have selected social media star Manny Gutierrez aka ‘Manny MUA’.

 

 

Before you get too excited (!) this video about a Naked Gym is not a reality but a joke that pokes fun at the whole gym culture. 

Kudos to Brit toymaker Corgi for bringing out a model of the special Pride bus that first appeared on London streets in 2015. 

NY’s Metropolitan Transport Authority have opened a new subway line and they have featured a mosaic mural at its 72nd Street station by artist Vik Muniz which shows real-life couple Thor Stockman and Patrick Kellogg.

Church of Scotland minister Reverend John Nugent, of Saint Fergus Church has given his express support for the Time for Inclusive Education campaign, which is lobbying the Scottish Government to introduce LGBTI inclusive education into all Scottish schools.  He  has called on people of faith to seize the agenda ‘back from the bigots’.

Frank Ocean‘s wonderful mother, Katonya Breaux, says she would like to see the homophobic gospel singer Kim Burrell disappear from her son’s album, “Blonde.”after she went on an anti-gay rant last week which also got her disinvited from appearing on Ellen Degeneres’ TV show.

Not that we have any desire to watch a parade of scantily clad women BUT we  just love the fact that a Taiwanese man hired 50 pole-dancing strippers  for his politician father’s funeral procession.  Pity the man wasn’t gay, as he had booked go-go boys instead. 

This weeks  include:

 

Viveca A. Fox who is evidently the host of a TV reality show called Black Magic that auditions and creates an all-male exotic dance group, says she doesn’t want her all-male strippers to dance for gay men.  Hmmm … maybe she should ask them what they want to do, as we guess that many of them would just love to do just that, and maybe sometimes for free!

Self-loathing GAY Stefano Gabbana is not just the only designer who loves to dress Mrs Trump,  but also he hates the fact people call him GAY. Obviously we maybe should not have rushed to forgive this GAY man for saying LGBT peeps should never have babies 18 months ago, as he has some serious internalized homophobia to deal with.

Normally queerguru is overjoyed at the news of any impending same-sex marriage, but this time we suspect that Tom Daley’s announcement that he and Dustin Lance Black will wed this year was intended to railroad queerguru’s own 2017 wedding. He evidently has never gotten over our own history with his fiance.