Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLondon is planning to have a gay old time in 2017 when it gets down to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in July 1967, which partially decriminalized homosexuality in England and Wales. Asides from the two major Exhibitions that the Tate Gallery have planned i.e. the biggest ever … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBrit singer/songwriter Tom Robinson started his band in 1976 and their debut punk rock album went ‘gold’ just two years later. TRB, as the band were known, were voted “Best New Band” and “Best London Band” for the year 1977 by listeners at the Capital Radio Music Awards. Like many of the ‘new wave’ groups of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThere was a time when gay cavemen discovered that having ‘samesies’ sex was limiting the number of people on earth so they try to enforce a new rule that they all have sex with ‘opposites’ for a while, which doesn’t go down too well at all. Watch this hilariously funny video from 2013 by writer/director … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterRoger Casement was once described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations” after publishing his Casement Report on the Congo in 1905, and then for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru for which the British Government knighted him. Casement was a British diplomat of Irish extraction, humanitarian activist, Irish nationalist, and poet and when … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Aaron Brookner set out to find the lost negatives of ‘Burroughs : The Movie’ a critically acclaimed film made by his uncle Howard Brookner who had died of AIDS in 1989 aged just 34 years old. Before his untimely demise Howard had made just two feature documentaries …..the other one was on Robert Wilson the … Continue reading
