LGBTQ history
LGBT+ history month: remembering the ‘Glamour Boys’ – the gay MPs who warned 1930s Britain about Nazism
In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Britain, homosexuality was an illicit act and would remain that way until 1967 when the law changed in England and Wales. Even though gay culture was vibrant, it existed mostly underground, its community was forced to socialize with a certain degree of covertness in order to…
“Even Solomon” a transgender drama from BBC TV in 1979
The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) were always regarded as the bastion of British Broadcasting and part of the country’s Establishment. Even today they are still one of the world’s most trusted news service. There was however another side to them when in their earlier days they also produced some ground-breaking programming in their Play…
Happy 43rd Birthday to the groundbreaking ‘The Joy Of Gay Sex ‘
It may seem very odd to some of us that 43 years ago Dr Charles Silverstein felt the need to compile. The Joy Of Gay Sex. But back in the 1970’s sex education was both sparse and very straight. After all in the UK, homosexuality wasn’t legalised until 1969 , so no one had …
QUEER LATES X QUEERSTORY : a cabaret show to celebrate our Queer History
One of Queerguru’s favorite cabaret performers PETER GROOM who IS Marlene Dietrich incarnate is joining the cast of QUEER LATES X QUEERSTORY at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. This one-night-only show will celebrate some of our Queer ancestors in the cabaret-lecture-variety show of the century as part of LGBTQ+ History Month Mercury…
