The Brit award-winning queer writer/actor DAN IRELAND-REEVES mines his own (seemingly racy) life to create semi-autobiographical dramas that we think may be too raunchy to be true. On the eve of bringing his latest play SAUNA BOY to Provincetown (and yes the title says it all) he told QUEERGURU that it was all based on him working in a Sauna for a year : and this is his whole story. Sex and all. Although maybe edited a tad . The cherry on top of it all (if we dare say) is that Dan has a very infectious English sense of humor which Queerguru Ed added is an essential part of having sex. LOL
PETER PARKER is a queer British biographer, historian, journalist and editor with quite a prolific output that includes the definitive biography of Christopher Isherwood.
He has just completed a 6 year project of SOME MEN IN LONDON a two volume anthology of the history of the reality of gay men in London from 1939 right up to 1967. Parker’s book makes for such compelling reading as its not just about the celebrity and aristocratic gay men who lived at a time when homosexuality was illegal and been exposed as gay could ruin and even end lives, but also those working class men who had survived two World Wars .
Prior to an Event sponsored by Gays The Word at The BRITISH LIBRARY with writer Neil Bartlett, Parker sat down with QUEERGURU Editor to discuss, amongst other things, the importance of sharing the LGBTQ+ community’s history with millennials and other gay men who have never personally lived in a period when homosexuality was still illegal. Our history is what defines us and helps share who we are and who we can/will be.
Brit TIM McARTHUR is something of a modern renaissance man : when it comes to the theatre there is very little he hasn’t done . He has just finished a smash run this summer as Sister Mary Playtime in Provincetown, and is now back home in London rehearsing his new play SMALL TOWN BOY. It’s plot is based on a remarkable true story which totally fascinated us.
It all happened one summer in New York just a couple of years ago when Tim was introduced to another Brit gay man who happened to have grown up in a small town in the North of England, just a few miles from Tim’s home town. When chatting further they discovered totally unknown to each other they had actually both dated the same man at the same time . Its the stuff that (gay) dreams are made so we HAD to know more so we tracked him down to the Union Theatre in London on the eve of the play’s premiere …..
When you read Parker Sargent’s resume you feel positively tired, and also in awe of how one person can squeeze so much into a lifetime : Writer, director and producer and the host of the What Is Queer Podcast and organizer of the TRANS CELEBRATION WEEKEND etc. etc. Then when you get to meet them it all makes perfect sense as Parker has a very infectious passion, energy and sense of commitment to our community and so its impossible not to be swept up in her latest plans.
They include the 2nd Annual Trans Celebration Weekend that is about to happen on Cherry Grove, Fire Island in September. Its three very packed days of movies, resources, performances, dance parties, nature walks, catered events beach activities and much more. Its perfect timing for this public celebration in one of the US’s most welcoming queer paradises in the present political and social climate when it seems like open season on attacking the trans community. The whole LGBTQA+ community is a better place for us all due to the likes of Parker Sargent.
Parker talked to QUEERGURU about their plans and hopes for this remarkable free queer event, produced in conjunction with Cherry Grove Community Association to which EVERYONE will be welcome to join
During almost three decades in London queer NZ filmmaker PAUL OREMLAND worked mainly on documentaries and a couple of feature films , one of which was LIKE IT IS a gritty queer boxing story that was one of Queerguru’s fave films of 1998.
When he first arrived back in NZ he treated us to 100 MEN a warts-and-all doc on gay history which he recounted and revisited through all the shags he had over that time : (so worth watching1) Now he has filmed a new feature film MYSTERIOUS WAYS a heart-pulling love story between an Anglican Priest and his Samoan lover who want to get married ,and in Church.
When Queerquru’s Jose Mayorga reviewed this controversial movie he wrote : ‘Mysterious Ways manages miraculously where a little prayer makes the world more fair, where love and respect take the place of double-dealing and unkindness’
We wanted to know more, and once we worked out the 16 hour time difference (!). we woke Paul up one morning to film this zoom interview
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