Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSad news today about the death of the iconic Billy Bean, one of Major League Baseball’s first openly gay former players and who became such a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ equality in sports. 60 year old Bean died earlier this week after a year long battle with acute myeloid leukemia “Our hearts are … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterStephen Linard, the Blitz Kid fashion designer whose clothes were worn by David Bowie, Boy George and Spandau Ballet, died on March 10, aged 64, after enduring painful cancer during recent months. David Johnson remembers the life and career of the man he knew: The press called them the New Romantics and the Blitz Kids, declaring the Eighties … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe gay British auteur Terrence Davies who always reached back into the past for the ideas of his films, has just died aged 77 His output was not prolific but it contained some of the very best quintessentially British cinema in the past 50 years. Davies’s breakthrough in 1973 was ‘The Terrence Davies Trilogy.‘ … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSad news reached the Queerguru Office from The Old Manse in Stackton Tressel in Suffolk UK about the passing of Dr. Evadne Hinge, one-half of the legendary musical duo Hinge and Bracket who morphed from playing London’s infamous gay pubs to starring in a production of the opera Die Fledermaus. at The Royal Opera House … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterDame Mary Quant who died this week aged 93 played a major part in what was known as London’s Swinging Sixties. Quant was one of the fashion designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants in an era that suddenly focused on making clothes for a youthful generation that until then had little … Continue reading
