culture
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All We Ever Needed Was Love
Fifty years ago, give or take a day or two, performers representing 19 countries from around the world appeared on Our World, the first ever international television production broadcast by satellite. An estimated 400 million viewers watched the two-and-a-half hour program, which featured talent including Pablo Picasso and Maria Callas and was closed out…
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Run(a)way Arab
It’s nigh on impossible not to really like Amrou Al-Kadhi an out and proud queer Iraqi drag queen / activist / writer / actor / journalist / filmmaker. He is also disarmingly charming to boot. The London-based founder and star of Denim the drag superstar group has always been such an articulate advocate about being…
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What It Means To Be A Man …
Filmmaker Nicholas Swatz and the team behind the cute LGBT webseries Bromance are in the middle of shooting a new documentary that has really grabbed our attention. Called Making Mas-cu-line is explores the whole construct of masculinity and how it affects the LGBTQ+ community specifically, which is a subject that is very dear to our hearts.…
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The Queen is Back
There is good news if you share queerguru’s passion for the 2006 movie The Queen for which Dame Helen Mirren picked up no less that 50 Best Actress Awards, including the Gold Triple of Oscar, Golden Globe & SAG. The story that captures Her Majesty and the Royal Family in turmoil over the divorce,…
