Tag: activist
April Ashley : Vogue Model, restaurateur, style icon and trail-blazing transgender activist dies aged 86
The glamorous icon and trailblazing transgender activist April Ashley has died at age 86. She was a top Vogue model until she was cruelly outed by a British tabloid in 1961, and even though that damaged her modeling career, April still managed to lead the most exciting life packed to the gills. Boy George…
Queerguru reviews L.A. QueenCiañera ‘from harrowing to happy’ the life story of trans activist Bamby Salcedo
As this documentary starts to unfold, Bamby Salcedo explains why at the age of 50 she is about to have her own version of a quinceañera party. This is a Mexican traditional celebration that all girls have at the age of 15 to mark their coming of age and enter into womanhood. For…
Matthew Richardson : Queer Circus Art + Activism
It’s been two years since Queerguru last spoke with the incredibly talented Matthew Richardson a queer aerialist. What we especially loved about him was that as a performer he is dedicated to creating LGBTQ-based performance art to address social issues and hopefully inspire a kinder world. Since we met Richardson was a finalist on America’s…
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
At long last the BBC film Keith Haring: Street Art Boy , considered the definitive documentary on one of most influential queer artists of the last century, will premiere on PBS American Masters series. Haring’s pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Much of his work includes sexual…
Carlos Jáuregui : The Unforgettable Fag
In this documentary that tells the story of the leading Argentinian LGBT activist Carlos Jáuregui, someone comments at one point ‘it’s important for our community to know where we have come from’ to which we would add, it is equally vital that we know who propelled us along the way too. Every LGBT community has a hero,…
