Tag: 2016
Fawlty Tower’s Manuel dies
The actor Andrew Sachs who played the hapless and much beloved waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (ranked number one in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programs by the British Film Institute) died recently aged 86. Sachs had a long and distinguished career on TV and in Films that lasted almost 60 years, but…
100 Years of French Knickers
It’s not often that you will see underwear like this featured on queerguru pages (!) but according to the Association for the Promotion of Corsetry Industries (PROMINCOR) this is Art, and important enough to have its very own exhibition here as part of Art Basel/Miami Design Week. So as big art lovers we including it as part…
Drag Queen Story Hour
Personally we never usually think about drag queens and children in the same sentence, but maybe we are wrong . The folk at the Feminist Press think that they have a lot in common : well they both love dressing up and all things sparkly and fancy! So they have established a popular children’s storytelling series,…
I Am Not Your Negro
When the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself. This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted directly…
World AIDS Day : Remembering and giving Hope
Their are many ways to mark this day when we remember all the remarkable people who we have loved and lost to this disease. Friends and lovers who enriched our lives only to have their own so unfairly taken away from them. Events will be held around the globe today to help us focus not…
