Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDO NOT MAKE UGLY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL Reverend Petter Simmons is an Anglican Vicar advocating for change at St. John´s Church in a small town in New Zealand . He is a widower, has a teenage daughter but is now in love with Samoan Jason, who served 8 years in prison and is the actual … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFiona Clark Unafarid is an affectional profile of a rather eccentric photographer who is something of a queer icon in her native Aotearoa’s (New Zealand) that the rest of the world …….. particularly the LGBTQ+ one … should know about. Back in the 1970’s Clark captured images of the fringes of the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe feature film debut from writer/director Welby Ings, an Academy Award Nominee for his short film Boy, is this very compelling coming-of-age story that packs a real punch. Set in rural New Zealand and starring Brit import Tim Roth it’s a tale of how small-town homophobia which combined with racism can have explosive … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter> The New Zealand pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, running now through November at Arsenale, recreates a sun-drenched, lazy beach island setting to present Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp, introducing visitors to the Fa’afafine, Samoa’s “third gender” community. The Fa’afafine are people in Samoa who forages identify themselves as non-binary, a gender that is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe latest big queer news from Down Under is not from Australia for a change but it’s smaller near neighbor New Zealand. They have just made an Independent LGBT web series FLUNK: The Exchange which has gone viral literally overnight ……clocking up over 1 million views in its very first month. After getting her … Continue reading
