1980’s
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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…
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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…
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Kamikaze Hearts : Janet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry is newly restored for VOD
At Queerguru we like nothing better to bring you the best of indie queer cinema, the edgier the better …. and even better still if it’s real gritty. We were thrilled then to learn that the peeps at Kino Lorber are re-releasing Juliet Bashore’s award winning KAMIKAZE HEARTS from 1986. This 2K newly restored lesbian…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews KevIn Hegge’s TRAMPS! a wonderful nostalgic trip to when British music was at its best
1977-1982 was arguably the most fertile period in British music history. I was at school then and almost everyone was into at least one of a complete soundclash of music genres – including punk, new wave, disco, soul, funk, heavy rock, mod, two-tone, early rap, hip hop, electronica, and the new romantic bands.…
