Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIn 1987 when Ron Goldberg was just 28 years old he discovered that ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power was about to hold a rally near his workplace. He was not normally into any form of political protest, but like all of us gay men at that time he was scared, angry, and more … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMama’s Boy : A Story From Our Americas. I fell in love with Dustin Lance Black in 2009. He was in LA accepting his Academy Award for writing the screenplay for MILK in which he made a promise to all the queer kids watching, that things would get better. The very next day Black’s mother … Continue reading
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This memoir is of the extraordinary frenetic life of a skinny queer kid who left his home in the grim North of England to ‘find himself in London‘. In the 1980s and 1990s he found himself as a central figure in a colorful larger-than-life hedonistic queer group of non-binary drag queens and soon become known as the Queen of Soho.
He ran Trannyshack his own club night at Madame Jojo’s THE place to party and be seen. There was however another side to Hodge, now known as Dusty O, as at the height of the AIDS pandemic he took a day job as a service worker at The London Lighthouse the purpose-built leading AIDS Hospice, It set him aside from many of his celebrity buddies, and it grounded him enough to be able to move forward to his present life as a very successful artist
Queerguru talked with the disarmingly charming Hodges about this biography that has been getting rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s not just the joyous tale of Hodge’s fascinating roller-coast life but it is a remarkable and essential record queer history of one of the most tumultuous times of our Community’s history.
The Boy Who Sat By the Window: The Story of the Queen of Soho : David Hodge https://www.mardlebooks.com/dustyo
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe days of waiting until you were in a seniors home before you put pen to paper and wrote a memoir of your life, are well and truly over. But how old/young can you be when you have lived long enough to have a story to tell? According to British gay Olympic diver Tom … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterYoung people need to come out in their own good time – no matter how many well-meaning people are willing you on to throw off those straight shackles and wrap yourself in the feather boa of gay pride! Tom Allen is a good example of this and as we skip lightly through his memoir, we … Continue reading
