Turn Back TIme : the late great Charles Nelson Reilly celebrating his Broadway career

The day after the 2019 Tony Award Nominations are announced and we are celebrating all the LGBT nominees, we look back at one of the great queer Broadway legends who picked up his Tony Award in 1962 for his performance in the original production of How To Succeed in Business. The late CHARLES NELSON REILLY … Continue reading

Turn Back Time : The Queen of Lincoln Road, Miami

There are many members of the LGBTQ community in Miami Beach who would love to claim this title for themselves but there was, and will always be, only one Queen of Lincoln Road. The diminutive IRENE WILLIAMS cut quite a figure for about 40 years wearing her home designed and made outfits in an array … Continue reading

Turn Back Time to 2002 and the award-winning hilarious short film GAYDAR

  For Throw Back Thursdays we turn back time to 2002 and this delightfully funny award-winning short film Gaydar which will appeal to every gay man who has ever secretly lusted after a hunky man who may not be as straight as he seems.  Or is that just wishful thinking? Randy (Terry Ray) has a huge crush on handsome co-worker … Continue reading

Turn Back Time to when LGBT literature was pulp fiction

  In the week that queerguru is fully immersed in the Miami Book Fair which has some excellent LGBT programming  our coverage will follow next week), we take a look back at  the exploitative “literature” of the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s.  At the time this ‘pulp fiction’ detailing the seedy underbelly of homosexual life … Continue reading

Turn Back Time to when major Hollywood Stars used to love to camp it up

  Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye lip-synch their way through ‘Sisters’ in the 1954 holiday classic White Christmas in a most outrageous fashion.  The number was never in the original script and the guys were just goofing around on the set but director Michael Curtiz found it so funny that he wrote it in. On … Continue reading

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