Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterUsually every week queerguru takes a brief look at some of the big things that have made us smile and get a real ‘high five’ aka the ice cream emoji, and at the other end of the scale, those things that have really pissed us off and get a very big thumbs downs aka the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe actor, singer and 1970’s teen pop idol David Cassidy died today in Fort Lauderdale aged 67. His breakthrough came with his role in The Partridge Family where he played alongside his step mother Shirley Jones, and his solo singing career that followed made him one of the most successful stars of that decade. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTo mark this year’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, Vangardist Magazine has teamed up with Mauthausen Memorial and Serviceplan Group to pay attention to the little-known history of what went on in this Nazi concentration camp in Austria. Mauthausen was specifically built to imprison and murder anyone the Nazis deemed undesirable, including homosexual men, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOnce you’ve met and married your Prince Charming all that is left to do is to find your fairytale castle to live happily ever after. And that is exactly what singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright and his German-born arts administrator Jörn Weisbrodt husband have just done. Perched high on a steep hillside near the mouth of Laurel Canyon … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterPosted with permission from AFP Gay cinema pioneer Rupert Everett said his new biopic about legendary literary dandy Oscar Wilde captures him as a “Christ-like” figure who sacrificed himself for the future global LBGTQ rights movement. Everett penned, directed and starred in his years-long passion project about the flamboyant 19th-century Irish writer, “The Happy Prince“, … Continue reading