Brit queer writer James McDermott on his new play Time & Tide
He talked with QUEERGURU about this, and how life is being gay by the British Seaside
https://www.facebook.com/james.mcdermott.9081
https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/time-and-tide
He talked with QUEERGURU about this, and how life is being gay by the British Seaside
https://www.facebook.com/james.mcdermott.9081
https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/time-and-tide
Brooklyn Film Festival New York City’s longest running international-competitive film festival, announced that its 23rd edition, themed TURNING POINT, will go on in the form of a virtual festival with its FULL lineup of more than 140 films viewable for FREE from May 29 through June 7 at www.brooklynfilmfestival.org. QUEERGURU previewed there selection of LGBTQ movie and here are the TOP QUEER PICKS of must-see movies.
Milkwater, The Right Girls, RIght Near The Beach, Take Me To Prom, Two Little Boys, Freed, and Mr.Sam
Petri went on to become a fashion stylist who is the person on a fashion shoot who chooses the clothes for the models to wear. Petri was actually more than a stylist, he used clothes to create an atmosphere and an attitude. In so doing he defined a menswear look of the 1980s.
Petri called his group of collaborators Buffalo after, as he once explained,“It’s a Caribbean expression to describe people who are rude boys or rebels. Not necessarily tough, but with style taken from the street ….. a functional and stylish look, non-fashion with a hard attitude”. In part of the group he formed were photographers Jamie Morgan, Marc LeBon, Cameron McVey and singer Neneh Cherry. Cherry at the time released a track called “Buffalo Stance” which you can find on You Tube.
It’s sweetness that I’m thinking of
We always hang in a Buffalo stance
We do the dive every time we dance”
The Buffalo look is easily recognised as a kind of post punk DIY approach to fashion drawing on club influences and a radical approach to sportswear often using non white models. “It is not the clothes that are the stars of his work it’s the people” Petri said “the important thing in styling is good casting. Once you have that, everything else falls into place”.
The look that Buffalo created still influences fashion pages today and can be seen on the backs of hip young things on the high street.
He was a very respected, kind man and no-one had a bad word to say about him. He always kept a distance from the bitchiness of the fashion world.
Sadly Ray Petri died of AIDS in London, August 15, 1989 surrounded by his friends.
Book : Buffalo - Ray Petri
Published by Schirmer/Mosel 2000.
GRAHAM FRASER Queerguru’s Culture, Fashion and Arts Correspondent was once half of the award winning FASHION DESIGNER duo WORKERS FOR FREEDOM. Years spent working in the luxury end of INTERNATIONAL FASHION he now lives with his partner the artist RICHARD NOTT and their two Cavapoos Albert and Raf in a stunning renovated 1950’s house on the edge of the Sussex Downs with distant sea views.
The glamorous and talented Cacophony Daniels is back in PTown by popular demand for her second year performing at Pilgrim House in her new show SO CLOSE and yet SO FAR .
Queerguru tracked her down to talk about her Show and naturally throw some shade
Cacophony Daniels "So Close and yet So Far" Jul 28, 2020 - Aug 1, 2020 https://www.pilgrimhouseptown.com
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This debut feature film is one of the most provocative stories that tackles gender identity and presents its own very different sci-fi take on this issue that is both innovative and intriguing. You can read our full review of the film http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/pulse/.
Now at last the movie itself can be viewed in the US on VOD at http://darkstarpics.com/ or via the HERE TV channel on Amazon Prime
The interview was filmed by DEBBIESEARS at BFI SOUTHBANK for WWW.QUEERGURU.COM