Sports are one of the last bastions of homophobia : can that (ever) change?

  It’s hard to grasp …… even for a non-sports fan like me …. that when English soccer player Jake Daniels decided to come out at the start of his professional career, he instantly became the only player in the English football leagues to come out as gay.  What was more shocking is that he … Continue reading

Sportsmen Sam Stanley Comes Out

Two weeks after Keegan Hirst became the first British professional Rugby League player to come out publicly as gay,  23 year old Sam Stanley a professional Rugby Union player has come out as gay in an interview in today’s ‘Sunday Times’ in the UK. (queerguru will not even attempt to try and explain the difference … Continue reading

Springsteen proves he is still The Boss

The legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen has just announced this afternoon that he will cancel his upcoming show that he was due to perform this Sunday, April 10th in Greensboro Coliseum, North Carolina as an act of ‘solidarity’ with the LGBT community who are protesting the State’s heinous new ‘Bathroom Act’   The newly enacted … Continue reading

Sprite brings tears to your eyes at Buenos Aires Pride

Sprite, part of the Coca Cola company, in Argentina have made this very touching new advert which it has released to celebrate the annual Buenos Aires Pride known as Marcha de Orgullo The ad features young people getting ready to attend Pride, overlooked by supportive family members.  One mum helps her child apply makeup. A … Continue reading

SQIFF : Scotland's new Queer Film Festival

The first edition of the ambitious groundbreaking new Scottish Queer International Film Festival kicks off on September 24th in Glasgow and queerguru welcomes Scotland’s first ever inclusive celebration of queer cinema. For four days in different venues around our favorite Scottish city SQIFF is programming a mix of international feature films with  a dedicated strand … Continue reading

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