Writer/director/co-producer ANDREW DURHAM talked with Queerguru about his excellent debut feature FAIRYLAND. Based on Alysia Abbott’s “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father.,, which is the story of her growing up in San Francisco with her gay single father in the 1980s/90s. Their unique relationship is based on both of them evolving into establishing their own truths/paths which are thrown askew when the AIDS pandemic starts to decimate the city. In the end, their roles reverse as Alysa must take over the parenting role.
With an outstanding cast and Sofia Coppola as co-producer, Fairyland is the most authentic voice of seismic change in both SF and the entire queer community. This quiet film with such a powerful story really deserves to reach the widest possible audience.
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FROM OAXACA TO FINLANDIA… The movie opens with the image of a boy listening to a conch shell that reminded me of the portrait of Edouard Boubat and also Nina Ricci´s Farouche perfume from 1973. After the boy´s poetic image we see a sequence of tragedies … Continue reading
t’s time to OUTSHINE again. QUEERGURU has a very soft spot for The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Fest as not only is this our winter hometown, but also it started in 1998 the same year our Brit Editor-In-Chief landed in Miami Beach for the very first time. The festival reflects the large local … Continue reading
Watching Todrick Hall perform can frankly be exhausting. We hasten to add, in a good way that is. 35-year-old Hall has evidently never lacked ambition leapfrogging from a gig as a performer at a Disney Theme Park in Orlando to becoming a semi-finalist on TV’s American Idol, before turning into a highly successful You … Continue reading
OUTshine Film Festival, Miami’s own #LGBTQ Festival comes of age this year with its 21st Edition and Queerguru has checked out its eclectic program that covers almost all the LGBTQ spectrum to select our TOP TEN PICKS
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Writer/director/co-producer ANDREW DURHAM talked with Queerguru about his excellent debut feature FAIRYLAND. Based on Alysia Abbott’s “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father.,, which is the story of her growing up in San Francisco with her gay single father in the 1980s/90s. Their unique relationship is based on both of them evolving into establishing their own truths/paths which are thrown askew when the AIDS pandemic starts to decimate the city. In the end, their roles reverse as Alysa must take over the parenting role. 
