Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe exceptionally talented queer artist David Wojanarowicz’s name may not easily trip off one’s tongue but at least now thanks to Chris McKim’s incisive documentary his place in the echelons of queer culture will finally be totally undisputed. Wojanarowicz died of AIDS in 1992 just 37 years old, but this new film makes us all … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesBrooke Guinan’s second-generation New York City firefighter father is a hero. He was one of the first responders who worked tirelessly at the site of the World Trade Center for weeks after 9/11. Brooke, a firefighter too, is also very much a heroine for a very different reason. She is the only openly-trans member of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesGillian Armstrong’s captivating documentary on three-time Academy Award Winning Costume Designer the larger than life Orry-Kelly starts out with a rather wonderful statement ‘He called himself a hem stitcher, yet he really was a Hollywood Star. In the country he’s come from, that’s bloody amazing, but no-one has ever heard of him’. The country it … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIF SOMEONE IS GAY AND SEARCHES FOR THE LORD AND HAS GOOD WILL, WHO AM I TO JUDGE? POPE FRANCIS This documentary is on the making of a photographic religious art project that rejoices in the pain and suffering of the passion and death of Jesus Christ, crucifixion and resurrection included, using the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe all need heroes and role models. Especially in the LGBTQ community. Most of the ones we have are very colorful and loud. However, there are some like Rik Weiland who are far from that. Yet this very quiet private man, who sadly took his own life in 2006, is probably the most important … Continue reading