UK
What changed for the LGBTQ+ community during the Queen’s reign?
One of the first major pieces of LGBTQ+ legislation Queen Elizabeth II gave royal assent to was the Sexual Offences Act of 1967. That history-making act marked the first major crack in the UK’s long-held criminalization of same-sex sexual activity – it decriminalized gay sex in private between men aged 21 and over in…
Queerguru At The Movies @ Bristol Prides QUEER VISION FILM FEST
The SouthWest England City of Bristol may not be that well-known outside of the UK but it deserves to as it straddles the beautiful River Avon steeped in prosperous maritime history. Its former city-center port is now a cultural hub, and present-day Bristol now boasts not one, but two lively ‘gay villages’. The city Pride…
Inside the UK’s Rapidly Changing Drag Culture | Documentary
This well-meaning documentary from Netflix takes a look at how the UK’s rapidly changing drag scene is surviving the Covid lockdowns. However, somewhere along it mixes its message so much and it eventually trails off into confusion. The film starts out acknowledging the hardworking local drag queens who have always been the mainstay of…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah stirs up happy memories of the 1970’s Mods music scene reviewing The Pebble And The Boy
The four-year period from 1978 to 1982 was probably the most fertile period in British music history. A complete soundclash of music genres peaked and ruled the airwaves, including punk, new wave, disco, Two-Tone, new romantic, heavy metal, and of course the late 70’s Mod revival. A bleak UK political and economic landscape plus…
