Tag: gay history
The Log Books Podcast on British Queer History
If you are interested in the history of the LGBTQ community (and who isn’t?) then Queerguru recommend you check out THE LOG BOOKS an award-winning queer podcast. Run by Brit journalist and ex social media editor Adam Z Smith who is one of the 3 co-founders. It focuses on British queer history, and in…
PS Burn This Letter Please : a glimpse into NY’s gay drag scene in the 1950’s + 1960’s
In 2007 John Maloof a young graduate working on a history project bought a suitcase full of photographic negatives in a Chicago auction hoping that one or two them maybe useful in his research. However what he discovered that day was a treasure trove of what is undoubtedly one on the finest collection of street…
ASK ANY BUDDY : a compilation of gay porn from the 60’s to the 80″s
Usually when we come across documentaries that cover an aspect of gay history they are about the evolution of our community. Or possibly a profile of a iconic queer who has furthered the cause for equal rights, or was an out-performer who made their mark entertaining us ASK ANY BUDDY is about none of…
GAY LIFE in London in the 1930″s
In a ground breaking piece of Television in the 1980’s British/South African TV Producer Michael Atwell’s GAY LIFE documentary looks back at what it was like to be a gay man in the 1930’s in London. His guide is Clifford Skinner and his friend Benny who takes Atwell round all the infamous haunts where gay…
Love Me Like You Should : a mini doc on queer icon SYLVESTER
Why there has never been a feature documentary on the legendary queer Icon SYLVESTER is still a mystery to us. At least this 15 min. short “Love Me Like You Should: The Brave and Bold Sylvester, released this week by Amazon Music to mark PRIDE is a very worthy filler. From San Francisco filmmaker…
