Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWomen in Revolt! is a landmark exhibition celebrating British feminist activism, art, protest, photography, and performance from the period 1970 to 1990. The show is now open at London’s Tate Britain gallery. British women had very little protection in law in the early 1970’s. There was no maternity leave, right to equal pay, or … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterON RAILTON ROAD ⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎ MUSEUM OF THE HOME, HOXTON, LONDON It’s hard to believe, but free housing was once plentiful in London. In the 1970s and 80s, squatting was common and there were empty properties all over the city. Queer groups of people squatted too. One such group, the Brixton Faeries, famously held court … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesHandsome New York couple Ira (Matt Dallas) and Josh (Taylor Frey) live a seemingly gilded life, dividing their time between NY and their beautiful home in the Hamptons. Ira is a hard-working, successful agent and Josh is a less successful actor. The two have been together for ten years and, although they have … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesRenowned poet, radical queer, visionary, one of the founders of the Beat Generation, lecturer, Buddhist, political activist and more, Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counter-culture. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg condenses 60 hours of film on Ginsberg, painstakingly collected over 25 years by director Jerry Aronson, into a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterCock, tits, arse, sex, cigarettes, ham sandwiches on sliced white bread, lurid tabloid headlines and suggestive photographs. What passes for a perfect day at the seaside for most Brits, is also the backbone of British artist Sarah Lucas’s work of the past thirty years, now enjoying a well-deserved retrospective, Happy Gas, at London’s … Continue reading
