Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTo her devoted queer fans, the singer Margarita Pracatan was the best thing that Cuba ever exported. She found fame relatively late in life when Clive James one of the biggest Talk Show Hosts in UK TV discovered Margarita performing on her Manhattan public-access television cable TV program in 1994 and invited her to the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOverlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The New York Times. This month they adding the stories of important L.G.B.T. figures.: this a REPRINT of one of them ROBERTA COWELL At the height of Roberta Cowell’s celebrity status, in 1954, her face adorned the cover of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterJust two days after QUEERGURU interviewed Brit actor MICHAEL MATUS who is about to star in the latest incarnation of the gay classic comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, the very man who inspired the original has died in Paris aged 88. The legendary singer/drag performer/night club owner MICHOU was known as the Blue Prince on … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSix time Tony Award winner songwriter-composer JERRY HERMAN died here in Miami Beach yesterday aged 88 years old. This legendary Broadway figure who created such camp hot musicals such as Hello Dolly, Mame and the first ever ‘gay’ musical La Cage Aux Folles (the latter he wrote with Harvey Fierstein) In his long career Herman … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTerry De Havilland born in London’s East End just before WW2 broke out, became the capital’s (and then the world’s) most colourful cobbler with his stunning ‘look at me’ shoes in the 1960s’ . His outrageous platform shoes. away ahead of its time ,attracted an enormous band of followers from celebrities like Marianne Faithfull, Led … Continue reading
