Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDuring the opening credits we see a young woman trudging through snowy streets dressed in her bedtime attire and clutching a large scrapbook which she keeps looking at time to time. The childish drawings are her clue to tracking down the apartment of her best friend Robin which miraculously she manages to do. The year … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn the summer of 1984 when London’s annual Gay Pride Pride was taking place Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) a young passionate activist (who eerily looked like Morrissey from The Smiths) decided that he wanted to form a Gay & Lesbian group to help support the country’s distressed and embattled miners. U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesElizabeth Bishop was something of a self-absorbed cold fish. When she finishes her tenure as US Poet Laureate in 1950, she was 40 years old, alone in N.Y., and suffering with ‘writers block’. At the suggestion of her friend and fellow poet Robert Lowell she decides to go to South America for a long vacation. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen out-gay German film director Roland Emmerich bombed The White House in ‘Independence Day’ everyone cheered (it became the first movie to take over $100 million at the Box Office in a week). However the moment he announced that his latest movie would be revisiting the Stonewall Riots that had marked the start of the gay liberation … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is an obscure and difficult-to-watch movie about an obscure and difficult-to-read poet. It’s the brief life of Hart Crane a poet and writer well-regarded by his peers but who was one very unhappy homosexual who took his own life in 1932 when he was a mere 33 years old. In his short career … Continue reading