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Can AN AVOCADO PIT a shortlisted film by trans filmmaker Ary Zara, and producer Elliot Page make OSCAR History ?

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    Academy Award acting nominee   and the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of Time, Elliot Page is one of the creative forces behind AN AVOCADO PIT that has been shortlisted for a 2024 Academy® Award.  The filmmaker Ary Zara is the first trans person to be considered for the Oscars’ Live … Continue reading



Three queer dramas are on the shortlist for the Academy Award Best International Film Award !

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  The American Academy of Motion Pictures released some Shortlists for 2023 Oscars including Best International Film and we are so delighted that it includes 3 excellent queer films. two of which were made in countries where being gay is still illegal.  Queerguru Contributing Editor Andrew Hebden was at Londons BFI London Film Festival in … Continue reading



William Hurt …. one of the very finest ‘gay for pay’ actors ….. dies aged 71

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    In the 1980s’ William Hurt was one of Hollywood’s sexiest and most successful stars who was nominated for Academy Award for Leading Actor three years running.  In 1987, in his third attempt, he won for his remarkable performance In Kiss of The Spider Woman as Luis Molina, an effeminate homosexual in prison for … Continue reading



After West Side Story we want Ariana DeBose to remake The Sound of Music!

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  When Ariana Debose collects her Academy Award to add to her Golden Globe for her superb performance as Anita in West Side Story, we know what classic musical she should revive next.  On a recent appearance on Saturday Night Live she played a very ‘contemporary’ version of Maria with her particular take on The … Continue reading



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