Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHalston was the US’s first haute couturier to be taken seriously. From milliner to revered iconic fashion designer in a very short this flamboyant and fun-loving man firmly put his sartorial stamp on everything in the Studio 54 era so that his ‘star’ on Fashion’s Walk of Fame in NY rightly proclaims ‘The 70’s Belonged … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen Patrick Moote proposed to his girlfriend on camera at a Baseball Game the video of her brusque rejection went viral on YouTube within days. It wasn’t the fact that he had been so un-ceremoniously dumped in public that upset him, it was the reason she gave for her refusal. It really hit poor humiliated Patrick … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOn February 12th 2008 in E.O High School in Oxnard, a sleepy Californian beach town, one very troubled teenager took his anger out on one of his classmates and shot him in the back of the head twice at point blank. It was the middle of the day and the class were all together in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAfter watching Leah Wolchok’s fascinating look behind the scenes of The New Yorker’s celebrated Cartoon Department and having this mini crash course into its workings, it makes you have a great deal of respect to all the rather eccentric men (and a few women) whose lives are solely all about getting their ‘funnies’ published in this … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVito Russo was an extraordinary man. A discerning cineaste and movie historian, an avid gay activist and a leading Aids activist : my kind of hero! In filmmaker Jeffery Schwarz’s awe-inspiring new documentary on Russo’s action-packed short life we can see the full extent of this remarkable man’s leadership and involvement in gay rights, his … Continue reading