Tag: Aids
Sydney is to re-stage WARD 17 Australia’s first dedicated HIV/AIDS unit
Queerguru loves to look around the world to see the different ways that World Aids Day is on December 1st each year. Technically there is a particular project in Sydney Australia that will not be ready by then but will be a remarkable memorial when it is completed. Sydney’s new LGBTQI museum Qtopia has…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews The Unabridged Mrs Vera’s Daybook : a compelling story of AIDS activism through art
The Unabridged Mrs Vera’s Daybook is a warm-hearted documentary telling the story of historic AIDS activism and related community art in San Francisco through the works of two local based artists, photographer Michael Johnstone and his partner, artist David Faulk, aka Mrs. Vera. Mrs Vera is a colorful drag/art persona, originally created by David…
Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty
Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley. The two-character play traces the relationship that develops between a disabled Vietnam veteran, J.…
Steven Reigns talks about A QUILT FOR DAVID
Steven Reigns poet, educator, activist + first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood came to East End Books Ptown to launch Steven Reigns’s Quilt For David the hidden history of a vulnerable gay man whose life and death was turned into tabloid fodder he stopped by to talk with Queerguru . The book is a…
The Princess, the patient, and the handshake that changed the face of AIDS
Bren Gosling‘s play MOMENT OF GRACE captures a very significant moment that created such a seachange when Diana, Princess of Wales shook the hands of an AIDS patient in a London Hospice back in 1987. Bren Gosling talks about his play…. now at The Hope Theatre in London …. with QUEERGURU and how this one single…