Tag: 1980’s
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah can hardly contain his excitement as he revisits KINKY GERLINKY London’s legendary queer club of the late 1980s/early 1990s
London’s legendary late 1980s/early 1990s queer club night Kinky Gerlinky is back in the spotlight with the release of a twenty-one-episode set of footage from the infamous club. Film-maker and photographer Dick Jewell, then partner of one of the resident DJs Rachel Auburn, shot over 200 hours of footage at the club during 1990-92.…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews STUDIO ONE FOREVER the story of the infamous LA gay club with a racist/sexist door policy
Studio One Forever is a documentary about the infamous Studio One nightclub in West Hollywood, known for its racist and sexist door policies as much as anything else. Launched in 1974, the club ran for 19 years until 1993. Why Studio One decided to have racist and sexist door policies is not made…
Patric McCoy : TAKE MY PICTURE : striking photographic portrayals of gay Black men in the 1980s
One of the very good reasons to make tracks to Chicago next month is to head to Wrightwood 659 to see a new exhibit from Patric McCoy. This Chicago native, retired environmental scientist, traveled around Chicago, often on his bike with his camera. The result is a selection of 50 striking photographic portrayals of…
Queerguru reviews TRAMPS!: The Death of Punk. The New Romantics & The Art of Survival @ NY’s NewFest
Following in the heels of BLITZED the excellent documentary by Bruce Ashley and Michael Donald the remarkable story of how in the 1980’s a very small group of young people In London in a mere 18 months redefined a whole generation, comes another look at them in TRAMPS. Remarkably it’s the sophomore film from queer Canadian…
David Hodge/Dusty O talks about THE BOY WHO SAT BY THE WINDOW
This memoir is of the extraordinary frenetic life of a skinny queer kid who left his home in the grim North of England to ‘find himself in London‘. In the 1980s and 1990s he found himself as a central figure in a colorful larger-than-life hedonistic queer group of non-binary drag queens and soon become…
