2016

  • London is planning a gay old time for 2017

    London is planning a gay old time for 2017

    London is planning to have a gay old time in 2017 when it gets down to celebrating the 50th  anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in July 1967, which partially decriminalized homosexuality in England and Wales.  Asides from the two major Exhibitions that the Tate Gallery have planned i.e. the biggest ever…

  • Teenage Kicks

    Teenage Kicks

    Don’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas  to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head…

  • Arisce Wanzer struts the cover of Spiegels

    Arisce Wanzer struts the cover of Spiegels

    Arisce Wanzer a transgender fashion model has become a cover girl.  Not for some edgy hip clothing brand, but for Spiegels one of the country’s oldest established mainstream catalogs that has been in the mail order business for over 100 years.  This is no mean achievement for Wanzer who is one of the rising stars…

  • Cœur de Pirate singing from the heart

    Cœur de Pirate singing from the heart

    queerguru has only recently come across Beatrice Martin, better known by her stage name Coeur de Pirate, who is quite the pop sensation north of the border.  She popped up on our radar earlier this year when she was so affected by the tragedy of the Pulse massacre, that she decided it was time she came…