queerguru talks to openly gay actor-turned-director Brandon Cordeiro about his highly-personal heart-tugging short movie about a difficult passage in the history of the evolution of the LGBT community here in P.Town. Cordeiro born and bred in P Town took he title Ribbons from those that are hung blowing in the wind at the Town’s annual Swim For Life which is both a fundraiser and a celebration of the lives of the very many we lost to the AIDS pandemic.
For 42 years Jewel Thais-Williams ran Catch One the first African-American female-owned disco in Los Angeles which provided an inclusive, exuberant and one-of-a-kind environment for gays of color to party in. It became so much more that as Jewel sought to offer a welcoming alternative, a place for expression and celebration that was a refuge from daily discrimination. This fiercely independent woman battled through years of harassment to survive and prosper and even when it became the place-to-go for stars like Madonna she still focused on looking after the local community.
This remarkable and large-than-life pioneer and her club is the subject of a brand new documentary that is having its World Premiere at The Provincetown International Film Festival and to mark the occasion queerguru sat down to talk to the film’s director C. Fitz. for PTV. Here is just a teaser trailer of our conversation ….. more to come later.
‘Check It’ is a powerful and somewhat shocking new documentary about a ‘gang’ of gay and transgender kids in one of Washington DC’s most notoriously tough neighborhoods who collectively decide to fight back against all the physical and mental abuse that is heaped on them as they strive to simply survive. A couple of adult activists offer them a glimmer of hope for a better future. Directed by Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer, the movie is being shown as part of Provincetown International Film Festival #PIFF16 and is reviewed here by queerguru for PTV.
Effie Brown, Powerhouse Producer and Mentor of HBO’s Project Greenlight, was the Guest Speaker at the Evan Lawson Filmmakers brunch at #PIFF16 in June. Before she elucidated to the assembled crowd on ‘diversity in film’, she stopped by to talk to queerguru aka Roger Walker-Dack about her work in an hilarious interview that she thought would never ever see the light of day. How wrong she was!
This brief encounter was one of the most unexpected and joyous moments for queerguru in covering the Festival for P.T.V.
queergurutalks to Everett Arthur one of the participants of the new HBO Documentary SUITED the remarkable uplifting story of Bindle and Keep a small tailoring company in New York who are part of whole new growing breed of clothiers who cater specifically for the transgender community.
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