Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTo mark the 50th anniversary of Mart Crowley’s Ground breaking queer play THE BOYS IN THE BAND in 2018 director Joe Mantello mounted a Broadway revival with a cast of all-gay actors. Both a critical and commercial success, it won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Ryan Murphy, the celebrated queer … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLifetime TV is the latest US Cable TV Channel to launch its own original LGBTQ Holiday movie this season, a groundbreaking first for the channel Part of a growing trend of adapting their signature highly sentimental rom-com where everyone is guaranteed a happy-ever-after-ending. Helmed by openly gay Canadian filmmaker Pat Mills from a script … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLike many others, I discovered the Cockettes through David Weismann and Bill Weber’s wonderful eponymous 2002 documentary (frockumentary?), and like that film, this book is an essential monument to the countercultural force of nature that was the Cockettes, the late 60s/early 70s San Francisco queer drag troupe who took on the tedious establishment of mainstream … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterJohn Epperson aka LYPSINKA is a NY based drag performer who has been delighting audiences around the globe for the past 40 years. This Goddess of Show Business lip-synchs to meticulously edited, show-length soundtracks culled from snippets of outrageous 20th-century female performances in movies and song. It’s unashamedly old-fashioned entertainment that has kept the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter2020 will therefore be the very first year since 1956 not to have a Eurovision Contest. For those of you who for some reason have never ever watched the World’s Campiest Annual TV Show you should know it has 184 million viewers i.e. that’s double the Super Bowl audience. Admitting that you are not … Continue reading