2022
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Terence Blanchard’s ‘Champion: An Opera in Jazz’ the story of a queer man in a macho world
Terence Blanchard’s Champion: An Opera in Jazz (2013) tells the real-life story of world champion boxer Emile Griffith, a man haunted by memories of his past who struggled to reconcile his sexuality in a hyper-macho world. This groundbreaking work combining the disciplines of opera and jazz, was co-commissioned by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in…
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LOVE SONGS @ Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
If you are heading off to France to celebrate President Macron’s re-election, then Queerguru’s Paris Correspondent Richard Gilles says to be sure to also check out Love Songs at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Taking Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) as its starting point, Love Songs, this new, poetically-charged exhibition is…
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Once A Fury: a doc on The Furies, a notorious 1970s lesbian separatist collective NOW STREAMING ONLINE
Ten former members of the Furies, a notorious 1970s lesbian separatist collective that published a national newspaper and planned to seize state power, reflect on political activism and personal struggle. Jacqueline Rhodes‘s award-winning film simultaneously provides information on The Furies’ newspaper, what and who they were fighting for, and what their message was, as…
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Freddie Love and QUEER COWBOYS from the Wild West @Wiltons Music Hall
Freddie Love is a nonbinary multidisciplinary artist who is now based in London but originally hails from ‘the wild west’ of Oklahoma. This may explain the reason behind his new country music show ‘Queer Cowboys’. It tells the fantastical heartwarming stories of two transgender cowboys who lived in the 19th century American Frontier…
