Tag: tv movie
Dame Maggie Smith plays nice for Christmas……
We are a stickler for traditional etiquette in the QUEERGURY Office ie you will not see a single Halloween Pumpkin out until October. On the other hand, we could not resist sharing a preview of a new Christmas movie made by SKY TV in the UK and that is heading to Netflix this November. …
Dashing in December : a queer Christmas Cowboy story
The LGBTQ community’s fascination with gay cowboys long predates Brokeback Mountain the 2005 Oscar Winning movie that made us all fall in love with Heath Ledger. Yet some 15 years later there is still such a shortage of them on the big and small screen so that we got positively excited just about the…
Hallmark loses its gay virginity
Another big sign that we are making inroads into the hetro-normative world is that Hallmark Channel the family oriented highly sentimental TV Channel has its first queer Christmas movie! And if that is not surprising enough, they actually have openly gay actors playing gay characters In The Christmas House two brothers Mike (Robert Buckley…
Every Brilliant Thing
Every Christmas Frank Capra’s 1946 classic movie It’s A Wonderful Life is dragged out for another airing on TV. Lest you have never seen it (!) its the story of George Bailey who is so depressed by the fact that everything is going wrong that he seriously contemplates taking his own life only to be…
My Leftover Ladies
In China the word ‘Sheng nu’ means ‘leftover women’ and is a derogatory term made popular by the All-China Women’s Federation that classifies women who remain unmarried after they are 28 years old. It’s part of the pressure that their society place on women to conform and accept that marriage is the only goal they…
