Tag: Aids
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…
DEAR KEITH : Works from the personal collection of Keith Haring :AUCTION
Sotheby’s is currently presenting Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring, a dedicated online auction open for bidding through 1 October 2020. It presents 140+ works of art and objects from Haring’s personal collection, all on offer from the Keith Haring Foundation – an organization established by the artist shortly before…
Queer filmmaker MARK CHRISTOPHER”s very first short film from 1992
For Throwback Thursday Queerguru checks out the first short made by queer filmmaker Mark Christopher best known for as the writing/director of ’54’ and the subsequent ‘54 The Directors Cut. Christopher was 29 years old in 1992 when he wrote and directed Dead Boys Club. It is the story of Toby an innocent young man…
Killing Patient Zero: the true story behind all the myths.
As a a gay men of a certain age who personally survived the brunt of the AIDS pandemic but lost a husband and far too many friends, Canadian filmmaker Laurie Lynd’s excellent new documentary is way overdue. Like most people we had bought the story that the whole epidemic was started by a promiscuous…
AFTER 82 : The Untold Story of the AIDS Crisis in the UK
This remarkable and well-measured documentary re-counts the tragedy of the AIDS pandemic as it spread throughout the UK. It’s the story of how the British handled the crisis of what was initially perceived as ‘the American disease in a very characteristically British manner. It is certainly not intended to be a comparison with how the…
