Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFire Island. The place is evocative to so many queers around the world. The narrow ten square miles sand bar of 600 beach houses, a hundred co-ops, a beautiful beach, wooden boardwalks, no roads or cars, and a handful of commercial businesses is 49 miles off the coast of New York City in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLondon’s legendary late 1980s/early 1990s queer club night Kinky Gerlinky is back in the spotlight with the release of a twenty-one-episode set of footage from the infamous club. Film-maker and photographer Dick Jewell, then partner of one of the resident DJs Rachel Auburn, shot over 200 hours of footage at the club during 1990-92. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDivorce rates for couples over fifty have increased in recent decades, largely because it’s now more socially acceptable to be a single older person, and also because more older people are now financially and emotionally independent. Turtles, a new Belgian/Canadian comedy-drama by David Lambert, examines what happens when Brussels couple Thom (Dave Johns) and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterFOAM ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ Foam is a brilliant new play on at London’s ground-breaking, award-winning Finborough Theatre in Earls Court, a theatre that’s been specialising in new and rediscovered plays since 1980. The debut play from playwright Harry McDonald, Foam, is loosely based on the life of infamous gay skinhead Londoner Nicky Crane, whom we … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques1 Comment on Tender-hearted: Shorts from the UK and Ireland that seek to remind us of the radical possibilities of opening up our hearts to life, love and healing.The short film programming at the BFI Flare film festival is always excellent and this year was no exception. The last day of the festival today kicked off with Tender-Hearted, a selection of seven British and Irish short films seeking to remind us of the radical possibility of opening up our hearts to … Continue reading
