Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterRecently uploaded to YouTube is this wee gem of a video of Leigh Bowery shooting a shopping segment for the UK BBC TV’s ‘The Clothes Show’ in 1988. Bowery was a London-based performance artist, club promoter, and designer who created the legendary club Taboo which became the hang out of London’s alternative ‘artists’. Taboo was really ahead … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterHappy 81st Birthday Miss Diahann Carroll : from Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess when you first started out in the 1950’s to your Golden Globe Award for your ground-breaking Tv series ‘Julia’ and then gaining ‘gay icon‘ status as Blake Carrington’s tough sister Dominique Deveraux intent on taking Alexis (Joan Collins) down in Dynasty, we … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe late and very great Kenneth Williams was a much loved British comic actor and comedian who was a mainstay of the classic ‘Carry On’ movies in the 1960’s and 1970’s. A wickedly funny and articulate man who was probably like the U.K.’s own Charles Nelson Reilly. Although he was as camp as a row … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIsraeli LGBT movies have a tendency to be both passionately romantic and heartbreakingly sad. None more so than the one we revisit now as part our ‘turn back time’ series which is ‘The Bubble’ from 2006 from Eytan Fox who is probably that country’s most successful gay filmmaker. The movie one of Fox’s best is, true … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBack in the 1970’s Joan Collins was having a rough time, as her career was really languishing in the doldrums. She had yet to receive THE phone call from Aaron Spelling giving her the part of Alexis Carrington in Dynasty, and so had started the decade doing schlocky low budget horror movies, and then ended … Continue reading
