Rugby Strip

When queerguru went to school (!) a rugby strip was what we called the kits we donned to play this big butch (and very rough) game that was meant to make men of all us scrawny awkward teenagers. Nowadays however the term means something entirely different as it seems that every rugby team when they … Continue reading

Run(a)way Arab

  It’s nigh on impossible not to really like Amrou Al-Kadhi an out and proud queer Iraqi drag queen / activist / writer / actor / journalist / filmmaker. He is also disarmingly charming to boot. The London-based founder and star of Denim the drag superstar group has always been such an articulate advocate about  being … Continue reading

Rupert Everett and 50 Shades of Gay

Listening to the dulcet upper-class voice of openly gay Brit actor Rupert Everett talk about the seedier side of gay life seems a tad surreal, even though if you have read his own colorful memoirs you will know that this posh-sounding actor has had more than his fair share of rather scandalous living. He is … Continue reading

Rupert Everett’s new biopic on gay icon Oscar Wilde premieres at Berlinale

Posted with permission from AFP Gay cinema pioneer Rupert Everett said his new biopic about legendary literary dandy Oscar Wilde captures him as a “Christ-like” figure who sacrificed himself for the future global LBGTQ rights movement.  Everett penned, directed and starred in his years-long passion project about the flamboyant 19th-century Irish writer, “The Happy Prince“, … Continue reading

Russell Elliot : Around

Queer R & B performer Russell Elliot  has just released his stunning new music video  “Around’.  Elliot identifies as a pansexual feminist and is inspired by his own experiences with falling for a man in college who identified as straight.   He told The Huffington Post “Falling for a straight boy is hard. When he likes you back, … Continue reading

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