Three queer dramas are on the shortlist for the Academy Award Best International Film Award !

  The American Academy of Motion Pictures released some Shortlists for 2023 Oscars including Best International Film and we are so delighted that it includes 3 excellent queer films. two of which were made in countries where being gay is still illegal.  Queerguru Contributing Editor Andrew Hebden was at Londons BFI London Film Festival in … Continue reading

Three Time Academy Award Winning costume designer Anthony Powell dies.

  The wonderful British costume designer Anthony Powell nominated for 5 Academy Awards and winning 3 of them. died in London aged 85.  Powell enjoyed great success designing for both stage and screen (he won a Tony too). Although his raison d’etre was period costumes such as  Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the … Continue reading

Throwing Shade at the Competition

  There are all sorts of ways to train to participate in the World Out Games that are happening later this month in Miami. Toronto’s Triggerfish water polo team the current reigning champions want to make sure that their competition know that they are going to keep n winning. They taped this great new video starring a fabulous … Continue reading

Tibilisi Pride’s March for Dignity was cancelled because of the very real threat of even more violence

Today’s highly anticipated “March for Dignity” the  final Pride Event in Tbilisi, Georgia had to be cancelled. After ultra-nationalists had stormed and ransacked the Pride Offices there were fears of where the continued violence may lead. Once again the Georgian Government didn’t bother to hide their colors and the Interior Ministry said in a statement … Continue reading

Tilda Swinton gets awfully jealous

Tilda Swinton has reunited with Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino with whom she made the sensational “I Am Love” in 2009 for one the of the most anticipated new ‘hot as hell’ movies that hit our screens early this summer. Swinton stars as a rock star who is recuperating on an island after throat surgery, Matthias Schoenaerts … Continue reading

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