UK
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BFI celebrates with 50 years of queer cinema
Everyone in the UK seems fully intent of not letting the 50th Anniversary of the passing of the Law to decriminalize homosexuality to slip by unnoticed. Now the latest organization to join in is the British Film Institute (BFI) who, amongst other things, run BFI Flare London’s annual LGBT Film Festival. In an announcement…
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Does God Hate Queers?
UK’s BBC is one of the many British institutions that are putting on special cultural events to mark the 50th Anniversary of the de-criminalization of homosexuality in the country. They have launched a rather stunning TV series called Queer Britain presented by YouTuber and journalist Riyadh Khalaf which plans to get under the skin of queer…
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Are Gay Seniors in their Prime?
Brit filmmaker and photographer Rob Crosse has a thing about men, but then so do a vast majority of queerguru’s readers. Crosse however documents the private behavior that takes place in social groups made up predominantly of men, and for his latest project he has been studying a group of American gay seniors called ‘Prime Timers’.…
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UK : a Boxing Love Story
Rob Ward’s play Gypsy Queens a rather touching LGBTQ love story between two boxers is currently wowing audiences up and down the U.K. after a successful run in London’s West End last October. It is the story of “Gorgeous George” O’Connell, a bare-knuckle fighter and traveller, who enters the world of professional boxing putting him…
