Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe celebrated gay poet William Meredith was 52 years old when he met and fell in love with poetry student Richard Harteis, less than half his age, in 1972. In the early days of their relationship Meredith’s professional reputation continued to grow as he hiked up countless of honors as Poetry Consultant to the Library of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the true story of Leonie Gilbert : a fiercely independent American woman who constantly defied taboos at the turn of the 20th Century when she became the Editor, then Lover, then Mother of the child of Japanese poet Yone Nogucci in New York. And then when he abandoned her and his son to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSteven Soderburgh’s gloriously wonderful biopic would have horrified his subject Mr Showmanship …. if he had still been alive. Liberace was the most flamboyantly outrageous camp superstar pianist ever, who in the 1950’s & 1960’s was the highest paid entertainer in the World, but who had unbelievably spent his entire life in the Closet. He and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe only one food that Nigel Slater’s mother could cook without ruining it was toast, and so consequently this was his staple diet as a young middle-class boy grooming up in Wolverhampton, a town in the British Midlands, in the 1960’s. Late at night Nigel would surreptitiously read cookery books in bed by torchlight pining for exotic … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is an obscure and difficult-to-watch movie about an obscure and difficult-to-read poet. It’s the brief life of Hart Crane a poet and writer well-regarded by his peers but who was one very unhappy homosexual who took his own life in 1932 when he was a mere 33 years old. In his short career … Continue reading
