Nick Maynard is a queer actor/director/writer from Manchester in the UK who has just had his first book published with New Generation Publishing as part of the Pen to Print initiative, supported by Arts Council England. The story is set in his hometown in 2003, and has a queer disability storyline. The book is … Continue reading
The overwhelming feeling you take away from Fiona Cunningham-Reid’s profile on Dawn O’Donnell the Australian lesbian businesswoman who was partly responsible for making Sydney such a gay destination, was the fact that she was a thoroughly unpleasant person. This very fierce silver-haired butch dyke initially made quite a lot of money through real estate investments … Continue reading
Gilles Paquet-Brenner‘s take on Agatha Christie’s novel Crooked House with a script by Julian Fellows (Downton Abbey) and a rather wonderfully starry cast with some campy performances, and filmed on location in the stately Hughenden Manor, had all the ingredients for being a far better movie than it was. Despite all these elements it had … Continue reading
If you are a regular reader of QUEERGURU you will know that (one of the many things) we are passionate about is documenting the history of the LGBTQ+ community. To this end, we are happy to throw our support behind a new project in London this summer to recreate a Queer Household for … Continue reading
17 year-old Colin Warner (Lakeith Stanfield) is an apprentice car mechanic in Brooklyn who dreams of being able to go back to his native Trinidad one day. On the side he is a rather unsuccessful petty thief who makes a real hash of stealing cars. However one day he is picked up by the … Continue reading