It was a wonderfully manic week for the Queerguru Team both sides of the Atlantic and it shows how magically diverse our schedule is these days as we expand our queer coverage. Take a look at That Was The Week That Was just in case you missed any of it
Jonathan Kemp reviewed BEFORE I WAS A BEAR: an engaging and funny story about growing up at The Bunker Theatre in London
We reviewed KILLING PATIENT ZERO an extraordinary documentary that tells the true story about the myths of how AIDS started PLUS we filmed an interview with the filmmaker Laurie Lynd
We went through all the queer AUSTRALIAN QUEER FILMS we have seen to chose our TOP TEN LIST
Jonny Ward was back at London’s Kings Head Theatre to see Mark Farrelly ‘s one man show QUENTIN CRISP : NAKED HOPE the original Naked Civil Servant
We reviewed THE ACROBAT one of the most sexually explicit queer films from Montreal. Who Knew that despite all that snow up there the men are so hot and certainly not shy about showing it.
We went to the Jewish Museum for Zachary Balber’s stunning new exhibit Jews with Tattoos and we even managed to capture a few words with the artist on film too.
Andrew Hebden stayed home to review THE DANISH BOYS a collection of short films from would you believe Denmark.
Andrew Hebden and Jonny Ward both went to The Pleasance in London to see SInk The Pink’s fab panto ESCAPE FROM PLANET TRASH which was exactly like it sounds’
We tracked down one of our favorite queer singer/songwriters TOM GOSS in L.A. after he just returned from another very successful tour. Our interview made us like the man as much as we love his music.
Jonny Ward reviewed Jack Shear in Parris Is Burning which examines the lives of three women “dismissed, ignored and affected by society” through music, dance, sound effects, clowning, physical theatre and natural dialogue
Jonny Ward’s next trip to the theatre was to review & JULIET a brane new jukebox musical destined to be London’s next big hit and make a major star of Miriam Teak-Lee
We were very lucky to get an interview with Marja-Lewis the showrunner of the highly anticipated L Ward Generation Q due to be launched on SHOWTIME on 12/8. She told us exactly how queer it is going to be.
At Miami Book Fair we filmed interviews with Christopher Castellani the author of Leading Men a fictionalized account of Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo one of the greatest queer love stories of all time.
Jake Wolff, our next interview, and he talked to us about his ambitious debut novel THE HISTORY OF LIVING FOREVER about a chemistry teacher and his young lover who inherits all his plans to track down the elixir of life.
Dustin Lance Black, Oscar Winner, writer, producer, activist, mentor, husband and father talked to us about his excellent new memoir MAMA’S BOY in which he credits his mother for helping him shape his future.
Food Expert JIMMY OSELAND talked to us about his memoir JIMMY NEUROSIS about his teenage years as a rumbustious queer punk rocker in San Francisco in the late 1970’s
And finally we saw a preview of the rather thrilling QUEEN & SLIM hailed as a black ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ that will be in movie theaters soon …. and our review is being written now .
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS….
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Labels: 2019, week in review
