Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWe haven’t made it through 2023 yet and we are already filling up next year’s diary, including a date for Valentine’s Day eve It’s the day when the highly anticipated documentary “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive” will be unleashed into the world by Fathom Events for one night only The disco legend inspired … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDespite giving the world TV gems featuring powerful women such as Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, and The Bionic Woman, the reality of women’s lives and human rights in 1970s America was very different. The National Organisation of Women (NOW), founded in 1966, had led the way in the development of women’s rights, but … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn 1970, Tom Carpenter graduated from the Naval Academy ready to follow his family’s lineage in the military as a US Marine Corps attack pilot. Then he met Courtland Hirschi. Tom and Court fell deeply in love, keeping their illicit relationship a secret. At that time, homosexuality – if discovered – resulted in being … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesQueerguru first came across Brit filmmaker Jeanie Finlay’ in 2015 when we were bowled over by her documentary Seashorse. Her sympatico telling of the story of Freddy McConnell, a determined Brit trans man who wanted to give birth was a remarkable testament of faith by McConnell in allowing the cameras to film every part … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesNarrow Path to Happiness is an uplifting fly-on-the-wall documentary following passionate Hungarian ethnic Romani couple Gergo Gagyi and Lenard Varadi in their ambitious quest to document their lives and romance as a musical. Gergo and Lenard met whilst living in an extremely poor rural Hungarian Romani community. Homophobia is rife in the … Continue reading
