Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesKeep The Cameras Rolling is the moving story of HIV/AIDS educator and activist Pedro Zamora’s life and death. Pedro shot to the world’s attention in 1994 as the first person on weekly TV to be completely open about his HIV/AIDS status. Starring in season 3 of the then hugely popular MTV’s ground-breaking reality TV … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAt long last the BBC film Keith Haring: Street Art Boy , considered the definitive documentary on one of most influential queer artists of the last century, will premiere on PBS American Masters series. Haring’s pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Much of his work includes sexual … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe pop artist Kenny Scharf is a survivor. All his good friends and fellow artists in NY’s East Village such as Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol succumbed to AIDS in the 1980’s. It sadly marked the end of one of the most exciting periods of contemporary art in the form of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIf ever there was a time that the LGBTQ+ community needed powerful voices in our corner it is now. The trouble is that for them to get to a place where they can be heard and make a real difference is getting even more impossible in the present political climate. Not that Malcolm Kenyatta … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor all you QUEERGURU peeps in Canada, there is a real treat coming your way that will have you making tracks to Montreal. To the city’s BBRAM! Gallery where they are hosting a premiere of the award-winning documentary, Keyboard Fantasies on their giant 12ft x 9ft screen. The film by Posy Dixon tells the … Continue reading