fbpx

Playing Gay: How America Came Out on Television

Posted on Categories queermatterLabels , , , ,

Actor Wilson Cruz (whose breakthrough role was as Rickie the gay teenager in the cult classic TV show ‘My So-Called Life’) is stepping behind the camera for once and is the Executive Producer of a new documentary currently being planned called ‘Playing Gay: How America Came Out on Television’. Written and directed by activist and talk show … Continue reading



Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché — bittersweet portrait of a punk pioneer

Posted on Categories queermatterLabels , , ,

  Poly Styrene, the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band, introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion. She used her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain. As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, the Anglo-Somali punk … Continue reading



Pretend It’s A City : Martin Scorsese’s new Doc on Fran Lebowitz

Posted on Categories queermatterLabels , , , ,

  Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese has reunited with iconic lesbian writer Fran Lebowitz to make a second documentary on the most opinionated New Yorker with her razor sharp wit. Scorsese had previously directed the 2010 HBO documentary film ‘Public Speaking, (click HERE for our review) which included a variety of clips of Lebowitz’s interviews … Continue reading



QG MEETS DAVID THORPE WRITER/DIRECTOR OF ‘DO I SOUND GAY?’

Posted on Categories queermatterLabels , , , ,

Is there such a thing as a “gay voice”? Why do some people “sound gay” but not others? Why are gay voices a mainstay of pop culture—but also a trigger for anti-gay harassment? You have probably asked yourself some of these questions in the past but American journalist David Thorpe finding himself single again in … Continue reading



Queerguru reviews THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES an extraordinarily wonderful documentary about ultimate bad taste

Posted on Categories queermatterLabels , , , , ,

  This is an extraordinarily wonderful documentary that followed obnoxious billionaire timeshare mogul David Segal and his pampered blonde trophy wife Jackie as their life of sheer excess starts to crumble around them. The story starts pre-2008 when everything in their Florida mansion was so rosy for them and children and whole menagerie of animal … Continue reading



Follow queerguru

Search This Blog


View queermatter By: