Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLondon’s queer East End nightlife has always been a melting pot of races, communities and cultures. One of the highlights of a night in any one of its fabulous queer bars and clubs over the decades – from the legendary LA, Joiners Arms, Trade, The Spiral Staircase, Benjy’s and so on, to current … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe UK at the beginning of the 1980s was a highly-charged environment. Thatcher’s brutal economic policies, high youth unemployment, the urban riots of the summer of 1981, and very politicized new wave and Two-Tone music scenes fuelled a tense atmosphere. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were best friends, having met at school in 1975 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWho I Am Not is a fascinating documentary chronicling the lives of two engaging, very different, black intersex people; South African ex-beauty queen Sharon-Rose, and unemployed fellow South African, Dimakatso, both of whom live in Johannesburg. Intersex people are people born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWildhood is a beautiful queer coming of age story set within Canada’s first nation Mi’kmaq people, a community over 14,000 years old, based in rural Nova Scotia. The road movie introduces us to Link, (Phillip Lewitski), a Two-Spirit, half Mi’kmaq teenager, and his younger half-brother Travis (Avery Winters-Anthony). The term Two-Spirit loosely refers to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWoman Of (Korbieta Z) is a powerful, heartfelt feature drama detailing the life and transition of a small-town Polish trans-woman, Andrzej Wesoly to Aniela Wesoly. Spanning over four decades from 1980 to 2023, the latest feature film from Polish directors Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert screens this Saturday 23rd March at the … Continue reading