queerguru maybe inordinately proud of our fairly newish US Passport and therefore part of a country that will later this year elect its first ever female President, but even so, once a Brit always a Monarchist. So very Happy 90th Birthday Your Majesty : you are the reason that I am so thankful to have … Continue reading
Happy 81st Birthday Miss Diahann Carroll : from Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess when you first started out in the 1950’s to your Golden Globe Award for your ground-breaking Tv series ‘Julia’ and then gaining ‘gay icon‘ status as Blake Carrington’s tough sister Dominique Deveraux intent on taking Alexis (Joan Collins) down in Dynasty, we … Continue reading
River Phoenix would have been celebrating his 46th Birthday today. 29 years after his untimely death after making 24 movies, he is still regarded as one of the most celebrated and influential young actors in the twenty first century. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Running on Empty (1988), it was his role … Continue reading
I’m playing my role in history Looking to find my goal Taking in all this misery But giving it all my soul …… so sang the late great Freddie Mercury in ‘Made in Heaven’. Two days shy of what would have been his 70th birthday, here’s a look at the many faces of Freddie who … Continue reading
It would have been Édith Piaf’s 101st birthday today, and even though it is over 50 years since she died, her music still sends tingles down our spine. Here in one of the few live recordings that are in existence is France’s greatest chanteuse ever singing Non Je Ne Regrette Rien <br <br P.S. It … Continue reading