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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Filmmaker Keri Pickett talks about her affectionate tribute to her UNCLE ROY : Ice dance skater + Godfather of Gay Photography
One of the important roles of Queer Cinema is to share our gay history, as so much of it is unknown to most of us. A prime example is an outstanding new documentary, UNCLE ROY, who in the 1960s was a star skater in all the Holiday on Ice Spectators, and was also a brilliant…
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‘Queerguru’s David Allen reviews ‘The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel’ a true story about one of the last bastions of homophobia
On the balcony of the Holloway Motel on the iconic Route 66 in West Hollywood, a man would sit with a laptop in front of him, drinking wine. The motel hadn’t been in use for a while and was in the process of changing hands to become interim housing for the homeless. Filmmaker Ramiel Petros…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘THE P WORD’ an excellent queer play at London’s Bush Theatre
Queer South Asians, particularly Pakistanis, rarely get media coverage, let alone any positive story-telling. I should know, as a gay man of Pakistani origin, and having monitored the situation for decades. It’s always struck me as odd, given that South Asians represent 25% of the world’s eight billion population, so there must be about a…
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David Hockney O.M., C.H. : one of the most influential artists of the 20/21 Century dies aged 88. RIP
Every morning in the QUEERGURU Office, we get to see this etching on our wall. It is from a series created in 1966 by David Hockney to illustrate 14 poems by the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy (1863 – 1933). Cavafy was one of the earliest modern authors to write about same-sex love and proved…
