Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWho knew that when Renée Fleming, one of the world’s greatest opera singers, sent tingles down our spines when she sang ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ life at the Lincoln Memorial for The Obama Inaugural Celebration in 2011, she was actually auditioning too! Turns out that some eight years later the great soprano is swapping the opera stage … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIf you liked our Sept 30th feature about Ron Amato and his stunning book of photographs of male nudes ‘THE BOX’ (http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/2017/09/ron-amato-knows-how-to-bring-out-the-best-in-men) and you are anywhere near NY this month, then here’s your chance to meet Amato and several of his models. Amato, a fine art photographer and Fashion Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Photography … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterPosted with permission from AFP Gay cinema pioneer Rupert Everett said his new biopic about legendary literary dandy Oscar Wilde captures him as a “Christ-like” figure who sacrificed himself for the future global LBGTQ rights movement. Everett penned, directed and starred in his years-long passion project about the flamboyant 19th-century Irish writer, “The Happy Prince“, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterQueerguru is in Ireland this week, and tonight our port of call is Westport. It is a beautiful small town on the edge of an Atlantic inlet, on Ireland’s west coast. In the Georgian town center, stone bridges link the tree-lined promenade on the banks of the Carrowbeg River. Rockfleet Castle and Burrishoole Abbey. It’s … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWhile the powers-that-be on the British and American TV desperately cling to their homophobic views and still refuse to allow same-sex dancing on primetime talent & reality shows, their counterparts in Italy have no such qualms Giovanni Ciacci, an Italian costume designer, made the final of Ballando Con Le Stelle (Dancing With The Stars) with his professional … Continue reading