Oscars
Oscar Noms for LGBT characters all played by straight actors
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards® yesterday and seven LGBT characters all by straight actors were included. Nothing new in this as nearly 60 straight people have received Oscar nominations for LGBTQ roles to date, but meanwhile an out gay actor has never ever won. Time…
Our favorite sartorially dressed hot Hollywood hunks at the Oscars
Most of the media focus on the array of elaborate hit and miss frocks at the Oscars, but in the queerguru office, our attention is always very firmly fixed on the steady stream of sartorially dressed male stars. Especially the hot looking ones. It was not just Adam Rippon in his Moschino harness that not only caught our…
It took 60 years for openly gay filmmaker JAMES IVORY to get his own Oscar
Lgbt movie fans may be disappointed that Call Me By Your Name just won one of the 4 Academy Awards it was nominated for, but we are not in France where they are happy to have BPM, Robin Campillo’s AIDS drama sweep the boards at the Cesars walking away with 6 Awards, including Best Picture. It was,…
Oscar losers putting on a brave face
This morning the media is full of all the lucky stars who picked up a gold statuette at the 90th Oscars last night, as the poor runner-ups who are cruelly out of the limelight again. What must it feel like on the morning after? queerguru got exclusive footage of what is going through their minds right…
