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Brit queer writer James McDermott on his new play Time & Tide

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Brit queer playwright James McDermott choses to remain in Norfolk some 130 miles from the bright lights of London which so inspires his work such as his new olay TIME AND TIDE which is about to have its world premiere at Park Theatre London.

He talked with QUEERGURU about this, and how life is being gay by the British Seaside

https://www.facebook.com/james.mcdermott.9081

https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/time-and-tide



Brooklyn Film Festival Virtual Online FREE FEST : the best QUEER MOVIES

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Brooklyn Film Festival New York City’s longest running international-competitive film festival, announced that its 23rd edition, themed TURNING POINT, will go on in the form of a virtual festival with its FULL lineup of more than 140 films viewable for FREE from May 29 through June 7 at www.brooklynfilmfestival.org. QUEERGURU previewed there selection of LGBTQ movie and here are the TOP QUEER PICKS of must-see movies.

 

 

Milkwater, The Right Girls, RIght Near The Beach, Take Me To Prom, Two Little Boys, Freed, and Mr.Sam



BUFFALO :30 years later and still as relevant to fashion today as it was back in the 1980s.

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Buffalo was the collective name of a group of young photographers, stylists and models under the guidance of stylist Ray Petri. They changed the whole approach to the imagery of mens and some women’s fashion in the media. Especially working with 80’s trendy fashion/cultural magazines, The Face, I-D and Arena.

Petri was born in Dundee, Scotland on the 16th September 1948. His parents took him and his family and emigrated to Australia in 1963. Once there Petri found a love of music which led him to sing with and R & B group called ‘The Chelsea Set’. Returning to England in 1968 he had many jobs around the music business, a stall selling antique jewellery in Camden Market in London, before becoming a photographic assistant to a renowned fashion photographer of the time, Roger Charity.

Petri went on to become a fashion stylist who is the person on a fashion shoot who chooses the clothes for the models to wear. Petri was actually more than a stylist, he used clothes to create an atmosphere and an attitude. In so doing he defined a menswear look of the 1980s.

Petri teamed up with young photographer Jamie Morgan and between them set a look for the time. Petri was a cultural phenomenon who was very involved in music, fashion, lifestyle and spirituality. He became the older brother and father to these creative young people.

Petri called his group of collaborators Buffalo after, as he once explained,It’s a Caribbean expression to describe people who are rude boys or rebels. Not necessarily tough, but with style taken from the street ….. a functional and stylish look, non-fashion with a hard attitude”. In part of the group he formed were photographers Jamie Morgan, Marc LeBon, Cameron McVey and singer Neneh Cherry. Cherry at the time released a track called “Buffalo Stance” which you can find on You Tube.

“No money can win my love
It’s sweetness that I’m thinking of
We always hang in a Buffalo stance
We do the dive every time we dance”

Also in the group were Barry and Nick Kamen, brothers and models. Barry Kamen is most famous for the laundrette scene in a Levi’s jean ad. Also involved was the very young stylist Mitzi Lorenz and a 14 year old Naomi Campbell who  modelled for them often.

 

The Buffalo look is easily recognised as a kind of post punk DIY approach to fashion drawing on club influences and a radical approach to sportswear often using non white models.  “It is not the clothes that are the stars of his work it’s the people”  Petri said “the important thing in styling is good casting. Once you have that, everything else falls into place”.

The whole look of Buffalo is the stance and mix of clothes from different cultures. The most iconic look that Petri and Morgan championed is the USAF MA1 flight jacket in black nylon and aviator sunglasses. Every guy had one at the time, either from a designer, from a surplus store or made by the manufacturer Schott. Nearly every fashion aware guy around the world wore a version of this jacket and it still looks relevant today.

The look that Buffalo created still influences fashion pages today and can be seen on the backs of hip young things on the high street.

He was a very respected, kind man and no-one had a bad word to say about him. He always kept a distance from the bitchiness of the fashion world.

Sadly Ray Petri died of AIDS in London, August 15, 1989 surrounded by his friends.

Book : Buffalo - Ray Petri
Published by Schirmer/Mosel 2000.

 

 

GRAHAM FRASER  Queerguru’s Culture, Fashion and Arts Correspondent was once half of the award winning FASHION DESIGNER duo WORKERS FOR FREEDOM. Years spent working in the luxury end of INTERNATIONAL FASHION he now lives with his partner the artist RICHARD NOTT and their two Cavapoos Albert and Raf in a stunning renovated 1950’s house on the edge of the Sussex Downs with distant sea views.



CACOPHONY DANIELS is Heading To P Town

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The glamorous and talented Cacophony Daniels is back in PTown by popular demand for her second year performing at Pilgrim House in her new show SO CLOSE and yet SO FAR .

Queerguru tracked her down to talk about her Show and naturally throw some shade

Cacophony Daniels "So Close and yet So Far"
Jul 28, 2020 - Aug 1, 2020 

https://www.pilgrimhouseptown.com

 

P.S. You may also  like to see :

 

http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/cacophony-daniels-is-about-to-lose-her-ptown-virginity/

 



Daniel Monks : a new queer filmmaker so worth watching

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Queerguru talked with DANIEL MONKS the delightful queer Australian writer and star of PULSE his rather wonderful movie, directed by STEVIE CRUZ-MARTIN that was loosely based on Daniel’s life and  was about to have its European Premiere at BFI FLARE London’s #LGBTQ Film Festival in 2018.

This debut feature film is one of the most provocative stories that tackles gender identity and presents its own very different sci-fi take on this issue that is both innovative and intriguing.  You can read our full review of the film  http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/pulse/.

Now at last  the movie itself can be viewed in the US on VOD at http://darkstarpics.com/ or  via the HERE TV channel on Amazon Prime 

The interview was filmed by DEBBIESEARS at BFI SOUTHBANK for WWW.QUEERGURU.COM



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