Queerguru has always been a big fan of the work of the legendary Brit queer performer David Hoyle one of the very first ‘alternative drag’ artists. After we got to talk with him back in 2018 about his new film Uncle David 2, we were well truely hooked and have been following him ever since … Continue reading
South Africa may now have a reputation as Africa’s most gay-friendly destination which attracts thousands of LGBT tourists annually, but it wasn’t always that way. When it was a British Colony as part of the British Empire they had the english sense of morality and Christianity imposed upon them. This meant mirroring England’s … Continue reading
Today The FMs announce the first-ever Frankie Fest – an annual queer rock festival honoring the legacy of Frankie Rex – taking place on May 11 at Coney Island USA. Frankie was an up-and-coming trans-masc singer and one-half of the alternative duo The FMs, died in 1922 aged 37. The … Continue reading
Queerguru needs a very good reason to leave sunny Miami for a bitterly cold New York but here is an excellent one……Taylor Mac. The genius actor/performer/writer is a self-described “fool” and “collagist” who puts together forms and costumes to create a complex and sometimes contradictory look and sound. As he has resisted categorization by … Continue reading
Not being a big Olympics fan I was totally unaware of American Award-Winning Swimmer John-Michael Lander. However it was not his sports achievements that brought him to Queerguru’s attention but the sexual abuse he suffered that started when he was 14 years old, and the fact that his own mother was complicit … Continue reading