obituary
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The queer Brit Auteur Terrence Davies who excelled in personal film-making, and who treated cinema as artistry has Died
The 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.‘ …
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Dr Evadne Hinge (aka George Logan) one half of the unforgettable musical duo Hinge and Bracket dies aged 78
Sad 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 …
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Dame Mary Quant : fashion icon of London’s Swinging Sixties dies aged 93
Dame 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…
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Award-winning Brit author/writer CHRISTOPHER FOWLER creator of Bryant and May series has died aged 69
Christopher Fowler, the award-winning queer Brit author of fifty novels and short-story collections, including the highly successful Bryant & May mysteries, has died in London aged just 69. The Bryant & May series is set primarily in London, with stories taking place in various years between World War II and the present. While there…
