Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLondoners have always cared about how they look. Throughout history, each generation has created its own looks, with inspiration drawn from a wide variety of sources. Rebel is a new exhibition at London’s Design Museum. It focuses on the early work of a group of about 300 fashion designers from the past … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesBerlin has long been a queer mecca. As far back as the 1920’s Berlin had about 80 queer nightlife venues, including the glittering belle of the ball – the fabulous cabaret club, Eldorado. The club was awash with lust, sequins, cocktails, drag queens, and regular performers such as Marlene Dietrich and Josephine Baker. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesScrapper is a gentle new British film debut written and directed by Charlotte Regan. Twelve-year-old Georgie (bright newcomer Lola Campbell) has recently been orphaned by the death of her single mother. To avoid going into care, she convinces social services and her school that a fake uncle, ‘Winston Churchill’, is looking after her. She … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesGolda is a tense new drama profiling Golda Meir, Israel’s only female prime minister, and her actions during the 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Starring the brilliant Helen Mirren as Golda and Liev Schreiber as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, we follow Meir as she navigates overwhelming odds, a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPassages is a sexy, intense drama starring Franz Rogowski Great Freedom) the brilliant Ben Whishaw (An English Scandal) and Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue Is The Warmest Color) A chaotic and often brutal study of a modern relationship, Passages is set in an avant-garde, young Paris. Intense German film director Tomas (Rogowski) is married to … Continue reading
