Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIt’s Producer/Director Ryan Levey’s birthday today (NO, that’s not him in the photo above) and we thought we would celebrate by sharing the news about the movie he is trying to finish. It’s called OUT IN THE RING and it looks at the lives of LGBTQ professional wrestlers past and present, and the history … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterNY actor/performer/writer Ryan Raftery has a very eclectic taste in idols …. or some may say targets (!) It has give him very successful runs at Joe’s Pub and other theaters with his hilarious parody shows on Anna Wintour, Andy Cohen, Martha Stewart and Calvin Klein. To this extremely talented queer performer, no-one pubic … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’ culture, the 1950s’ became one of the most homophobic times in American history. McCarthy and his people created a world in which gay people were persecuted and ostracized both at work and at home. After President Eisenhower’ issued an Executive ORder “sexual perversion” it became grounds for the investigation … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterNews today from the Venice Film Festival is that a new doc from queer Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino called Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams has been brought by Sony Pictures Classic. It’s the colorful tale of how Ferragamo an impoverished cobbler from Naples left his home in Italy to go to Hollywood to seek fame and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIt seems very odd to us here at Queerguru that one of the last bastions of homophobia is ballroom dancing. There is still a level undisguised hatred so that when two professional dancers Graziano Di Prima and Johannes Radebe danced together on Britain’s Strictly Come Dancing TV Show over 200 hundred people picked up … Continue reading