Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis very affectionate profile on the actress/model April Ashley is long overdue as is evident in how her star quality simply shines through so bright on the screen.. April’s complicated roller-coaster life would have defeated any lesser person but since she somehow survived being born into a poor working-class Catholic family in 1935 in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEmmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz has added another subject to his series of documentaries on iconic LGBT figures which so far have included Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, Tab Hunter Confidential, I Am Divine, and Vito. This time his subject Allan Carr may be not quite so well known to the general public, but his successful career … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Annie Berman’s feature-length documentary film about obsessions turned out to be something of an obsession itself and clearly, you also have to have an obsessive nature to appreciate it too. It all started in Rome in 1999 with Berman’s first obsession with a lollipop with a picture of the Pope on it. With her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSome 40 years ago someone gave Sigurdur ‘Siggi’ Hjartarson a School Head Teacher in Iceland, a bull’s penis as a joke. It kick-started what turned out to become a lifetime obsession of collecting any mammalian phallus he could lay his hands on ….. it evidently pass the long dark dismal days and nights of Arctic … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis excellent unique slice of queer history is a film of the very first Gay Parade in San Francisco in 1970. Made by the artist, opera designer and independent filmmaker Ronald Chase,it was believed to have been lost for almost 50 years. Not only has it be found but it is just about to … Continue reading