Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTo most Americans (and other non Brits) 89 year old Dame Patricia Routledge is best known as the social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket (that’s pronounced Bouquet) in the long running hit TV sit.com Keeping Up Appearances. There is of course a lot more to this the veteran classically trained actress than that. She was a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBack in 1987 the celebrated British playwright Peter Shaffer followed up the enormous success of his Tony Award-winning play Equus with a new play called Lettice and Lovage that he wrote especially for Maggie Smith (in her pre Dame days). It centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterFor Throw Back Thursdays we turn back time to 2002 and this delightfully funny award-winning short film Gaydar which will appeal to every gay man who has ever secretly lusted after a hunky man who may not be as straight as he seems. Or is that just wishful thinking? Randy (Terry Ray) has a huge crush on handsome co-worker … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTo turn back time on this ‘Throwback Thursday” we are revisiting two sets of guys who simply cannot resist lip-synching to one of the gayest musicals of all-time Dreamgirls. The first video is from 2009 and is by Ryan Jackson, Logan Keslar, Billy Fagen who were part of the 50th Anniversary tour of West Side Story. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWay before there were any gay men in the UK (well, officially that is) in public at least it was only women that ogled after men’s near-naked bodies. Each year there was a competition to find Mr. Apollo from a bevy of masculine beauties dressed in skimpy Speedo swim trunks. The year was 1959 and the Judges were … Continue reading
