Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLondon’s most celebrated queer artist couple GILBERT & GEORGE aged 76 and 78 respectively are holed up in their East End home. What they are desperately missing is exploring the streets of London has been their daily life since they met as students in 1967. On their walks they take photographs, picking up unusual … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter“From Here to Eternity” marks the first major retrospective of UK based Canadian/Indian leading queer photographer, Sunil Gupta . Spanning five decades, this stunning and important new exhibition will bring together all the key series from his pioneering photographic practice for the first time, as well as presenting never-before exhibited works. Born in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterEven though Queerguru’s London Team of 4 give us some excellent coverage of of what is happening in the UK there are still quintessential Brit queer things we yearn for back here in the US. Right now for us it’s the sheer diversity of class that still pervades in society and culture, At one … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterNo young queer about town in the late eighties or early nineties could fail to have noticed the cherubic presence (a very, very naughty cherub mind you) of Michael Clark on the cultural landscape. The outlandish costumes (crotchless, latex or sleek and hypermodern creations) alongside daring collaborations (Leigh Bowery/Derek Jarman/Sarah Lucas/Alexander McQueen/Vivienne Westwood/The Falll) were … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterFifty years ago, on 13 October 1970, the Gay Liberation Front was founded at the London School of Economics. Two of its founders had being noticing the success of the US organisation and that inspired them to open a UK equivalent. During their very short existence (it dissolved in 1973) this ‘grandfather’ of British … Continue reading
