Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIn 2013, 26-year-old musician Scott Jones was attacked outside a gay bar in a small town in Nova Scotia and as result was paralyzed from the waist down. Even though the perpetrator was caught and convicted, the Police refused to even consider it a hate crime that was motivated by a hatred of gay people. Scott’s best … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis 2006 Swedish film is based on a real-life hate crime story that happened nine years earlier. It started with the unlikely relationship between Peter Mårten Klingberg a conservative Swedish engineer who ran his family’s old established business, and Nassim Pjotr Giro a free spirited Algerian immigrant who occasionally worked as a waiter and dreamed on moving to Paris … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs I was living in the UK in the 1990’s I had never heard of the case of Paul Broussard a 27 year old gay man in Houston Texas who was the fatal victim of a hate crime in the early hours of July 4th 1991, until I came across this excellent intriguing new documentary. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterJudy Shepard is an extraordinary woman. In 1998 her eldest son Matthew a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was tied to a fence outside of the town of Laramie, beaten mercilessly and left to die. This particular pernicious hate-crime caught the public’s attention, and news of his death provoked outrage from Wyoming to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOpening with a quote from Nietzsche ‘there is also some madness in love, but there is is some reason in madness’ this timely narrative about how extreme homophobia is in Russia is a saddening tale about the price of being gay (and in love) in that country. Anton and his boyfriend Vlad are driving … Continue reading
