2025
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE a musical about the iconic drag troupe THE COCKETTES
Midnight at The Palace. ***** Edinburgh Festival Fringe “Midnight at the Palace” is a raucous, psychedelic, sparkling musical about the queer hippy drag troupe, the Cockettes, who performed in San Francisco in the early seventies. They may not be well known (in the UK) but their wild, gender-bending, counter-cultural anarchy affected many who came later,…
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Elska …. our favorite queer photo-zine ….. celebrates its first 10 years
It turns out that ELSKA is not only our favorite queer photo-zine, but also we actually enjoy the same birthday as them. Queerguru and Elska are both celebrating their 10th Anniversaries this year …..and what a wild ride we both have had so far During his time, ELSKA has published over fifty issues, spotlighting local…
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Thunderbirds the campest TV show from the 1960s is being restored and re-released
;If you were born after the 1960s, then culture-wise, you were shortchanged as you missed the very best TV series of that decade :THUNDERBIRDS. Set in the 2060’s this sci-fi drama concerned the exploits of International Rescue, a life-saving organisation with a secret base on an island in the Pacific Ocean. International Rescue operated a…
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Terence Stamp the Brit actor who became a LGBTQ icon with a big set of a balls as the unlikely star in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has died
In London in the 1960’s Brit actor Terence Stamp was a roommate of another young cockney actor, Michael Caine, and the two of them hung out with Peter O’Toole on the London party scene. The trio were a big hit in every sense of the word. Stamp made his film debut in Peter Ustinov‘s film adaptation…
