Crip Camp : A Disability Revolution

CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION is something of a muddled film, but nevertheless a inspiring powerful telling of the journey for rights for the disabled community that will shock  many of us who were unaware of it. The story starts in the 1970’s at Camp Jenard in the Catskills run by hippies where kids with … Continue reading

CRIPPLE The First Broken Book : A 21st Century Parable by Nick Maynard

  Nick Maynard is a queer actor/director/writer from Manchester in the UK  who has just had his first book published with New Generation Publishing as part of the Pen to Print initiative, supported by Arts Council England. The story is set in his hometown in 2003, and has a queer disability storyline. The book is … Continue reading

Croc-A-Dyke Dundee

The overwhelming feeling you take away from Fiona Cunningham-Reid’s profile on Dawn O’Donnell the Australian lesbian businesswoman who was partly responsible for making Sydney such a gay destination, was the fact that she was a thoroughly unpleasant person.  This very fierce silver-haired butch dyke initially made quite a lot of money through real estate investments … Continue reading

Crooked House

Gilles Paquet-Brenner‘s take on Agatha Christie’s novel Crooked House with a script by Julian Fellows (Downton Abbey) and a rather wonderfully starry cast with some campy performances, and filmed on location in the stately Hughenden Manor, had all the ingredients for being a far better movie than it was.  Despite all these elements it had … Continue reading

CROWDFUNDING Help uncover stories of queer domesticity and create an LGBTQ+ home in London’s Museum Of The Home

    If you are a regular reader of QUEERGURU you will know that (one of the many things) we are passionate about is documenting the history of the LGBTQ+ community.  To this end, we are happy to throw our support behind a new project in London this summer to recreate a Queer Household for … Continue reading

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