Tag: 2016

  • Peter And The Farm

    Peter And The Farm

    Peter Dunning is an angry cantankerous old man.  68 years old, abandoned by his wife and adult children ‘they will not pick up the phone if I call,’ he lives alone working his 187 acre farm in rural Vermont.  He is full of a mixture of bitterness and regret, that is occasionally peppered with his…

  • Gene Malin : Queen of the Pansy Craze

    Gene Malin : Queen of the Pansy Craze

    For a few short years in the 1930’s when Prohibition meant that drinking was very much on the down-low, one group of performers experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Up until then much of the public image of gay people was still limited to the various drag balls…

  • Kiki : Love to Love

    Kiki : Love to Love

    We are sadly too used to Hollywood making big-budget remakes of successful independent European films which inevitable end up as poor shadows of  the original and fail at the box office. e.g. the French ‘Anthony Zimmer‘ that became the big  Angelina Jolie dud ‘The Tourist‘.  However in the case of the Spanish sex comedy ‘Kiki’…

  • Rara

    Rara

    When Chilean lawyer Paula (Mariana Loyola) divorces her husband Victor (Daniel Munoz), her new partner Lia (Agustina Muñoz) moves in to share her home in this small conservative town.  One day Paula is summed for a meeting with the school Principal after her 8 year old daughter Catalina (Emilia Ossandon) had made a drawing of…

  • Barbie & Ken ….and his boyfriend …..living it up in style.

    Barbie & Ken ….and his boyfriend …..living it up in style.

    queerguru first came across photographer David Parise’s work one Sunday afternoon at Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road Collectables Market a couple of years ago, and instantly fell in love with his whole series of vintage Barbie & Ken pictures.  In fact ‘Boys at Sunset’ above is the first one we purchased that day. Parise had been living in…