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HELMUT BERGER ‘The Most Beautiful Man In the World’ and longtime lover of Luchino Visconti dies aged 78
Austrian actor Helmut Berger, who was both incredibly handsome and talented was made into a major star in European cinema by auteur filmmaker Luchino Visconti who also became his boyfriend albeit there was a 40-year age difference. Visconti cast Berger in a spectacular role in his landmark 1969 epic The Damned in which he played…
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Did we ever tell you how much we really loved you Lily?
It has just been announced that the Britsh Award-Winning Talk Show host Paul O’Grady has died unexpectedly at the age of 67. Since 2004 O’Grady has been a major presence in mainstream TV with his different shows getting record ratings. However despite all his wonderful success, to Queerguru, and most of the British LGBTQ…
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The multi-talented Kit Hesketh-Harvey….. one half of the cabaret duo Kit and The Widow …has died suddenly at 65
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, the multi-talented British composer, and performer who once was one-half of the fabulous cabaret act Kit and The Widow has died suddenly aged 65. He wrote the screenplay for the 1987 Merchant Ivory gay classic film Maurice, which starred a young Hugh Grant, and also worked on BBC shows, including the hit…
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SYLVIA SIMS who starred in ViCTIM in 1961 the very first UK film about homosexuality has died aged 89
The veteran British actress Sylvia Sims has died aged 89, and whilst ‘younger fands’ will remember her playing the Queen Mother opposite Dame Helen Mirren in the 2006 film The Queen, she will always be in Queerguru’s heart and mind for her performance in The Victim in 1961 This British neo noir suspense was a…
