Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe ‘Love Life”T Shirt above is from N.I.C.E. Collective in San Francisco and is just one of the many fab garments you can buy online from DESIGNERS AGAINST AIDS website. This is run by the ‘Beauty Without Irony’ a not-for-profit fundraising charity in Antwerp Belgium which was launched in 2004 to raise AIDS awareness in the international … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterYesterday London Underground (known locally as ‘the Tube’) unveiled a stunning series of artworks by the late Australian artist/LGBT activist David McDiarmid that reference the AIDS Crisis. McDiarmid who died aged 43 in 1995 was known for his Rainbow Aphorisms that he produced in response to his own, and his community’s, experience of the AIDS … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBack in 1999 Frankie Goes To Hollywood singer Holly Johnson released DISCO HEAVEN a heartfelt tribute to all the friends he had lost to AIDS. At the time Johnson told The Guardian It’s a song about remembering in a positive way your friends that aren’t here any more. You know they’re all there … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterJerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley. The two-character play traces the relationship that develops between a disabled Vietnam veteran, J. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe UK’s National Theater at Home has just added to their online repertoire Tony Kushner’s queer masterpiece Angels In America. This is the National’s multi-award winning production from 2017 and which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival in London , and when it transferred to Broadway it collected three Tony’s including Best … Continue reading