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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews STUDIO ONE FOREVER the story of the infamous LA gay club with a racist/sexist door policy

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    Studio One Forever is a documentary about the infamous Studio One nightclub in West Hollywood, known for its racist and sexist door policies as much as anything else. Launched in 1974, the club ran for 19 years until 1993. Why Studio One decided to have racist and sexist door policies is not made … Continue reading



Patric McCoy : TAKE MY PICTURE : striking photographic portrayals of gay Black men in the 1980s

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  One of the very good reasons to make tracks to Chicago next month is to head to Wrightwood 659 to see a new exhibit from Patric McCoy.  This Chicago native, retired environmental scientist, traveled around Chicago, often on his bike with his camera.  The result is a selection of 50 striking photographic portrayals of … Continue reading



Queerguru reviews TRAMPS!: The Death of Punk. The New Romantics & The Art of Survival @ NY’s NewFest

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  Following in the heels of BLITZED the excellent documentary by Bruce Ashley and Michael Donald the remarkable story of how in the 1980’s a very small group of young people In London in a mere 18 months redefined a whole generation, comes another look at them in TRAMPS. Remarkably it’s the sophomore film from queer Canadian … Continue reading



David Hodge/Dusty O talks about THE BOY WHO SAT BY THE WINDOW

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This memoir is of the extraordinary frenetic life of a skinny queer kid who left his home in the grim North of England to ‘find himself in London‘. In the 1980s and 1990s he found himself as a central figure in a colorful larger-than-life hedonistic queer group of non-binary drag queens and soon become known as the Queen of Soho.

He ran Trannyshack his own club night at Madame Jojo’s THE place to party and be seen. There was however another side to Hodge, now known as Dusty O, as at the height of the AIDS pandemic he took a day job as a service worker at The London Lighthouse the purpose-built leading AIDS Hospice, It set him aside from many of his celebrity buddies, and it grounded him enough to be able to move forward to his present life as a very successful artist

Queerguru talked with the disarmingly charming Hodges about this biography that has been getting rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s not just the joyous tale of Hodge’s fascinating roller-coast life but it is a remarkable and essential record queer history of one of the most tumultuous times of our Community’s history.

The Boy Who Sat By the Window: The Story of the Queen of Soho :  David Hodge
https://www.mardlebooks.com/dustyo

 



Kamikaze Hearts : Janet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry is newly restored for VOD

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At Queerguru we like nothing better to bring you the best of indie queer cinema, the edgier the better …. and even better still if it’s real gritty.  We were thrilled then to learn that the peeps at Kino Lorber are re-releasing Juliet Bashore’s award winning  KAMIKAZE HEARTS  from 1986. This 2K newly restored lesbian … Continue reading



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