Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterPhotographer B. Proud started her project First Comes Love after the defeat of Prop. 8 in California in 2008. With same-sex marriage now illegal again in that State, the prospects for it been approved in the rest of the U.S. suddenly looked very bleak. She therefore set about honoring and recognizing same-sex couples who had … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIn January last year New York photographer Aaron Williams started a new project motivated by the fact that the City had just reported over 7,121 hate crimes with a 30% increase of incidents after the election. His brilliant photo essay was inspired by a particularly brutal incident when late one evening while waiting for the 1 train, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIn case you’ve been nowhere the sports pages this week, then you may not know that Abby Wambach has just played her very last game of soccer. Wambach openly gay and a six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, has been a regular on the U.S. women’s national soccer team since 2003 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTo mark Worlds Aid Day we wanted to re-release this interview that queerguru hosted for Provincetown TV earlier this summer with the leading gay activist and author Larry Kramer. We met to celebrate the launch of Jean Carlomusto’s new documentary “Larry Kramer In Love and Anger” that was about to aired on HBO as part of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSport is still one of the last bastions of homophobia. For every brave gay man or woman who dares to stick their head over the parapet and publicly ‘come out,’ there are thousands of professional athletes and sportsmen and women who are scared rigid about all the negative consequences that come with revealing their sexuality. There have … Continue reading