Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen celebrated British Author Christopher Isherwood met a particularly young handsome man in his speedos on a Santa Monica beach in the 1954, he was already 48 years old. The boy, barely 18, and looking even younger, was Don Bachardy. And against all surmountable odds the mutual attraction between these two extremely different men, developed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe cinematic fascination with The Beat Generation continues regardless. Following on the heals of Walter Salles take on Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ which the Critics were quick to dismiss when it recently had a Limited Release in US theaters, we have this new movie which, set in the mid 1940’s is essentially a pre-quel to the movement that was … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesHalston was the US’s first haute couturier to be taken seriously. From milliner to revered iconic fashion designer in a very short this flamboyant and fun-loving man firmly put his sartorial stamp on everything in the Studio 54 era so that his ‘star’ on Fashion’s Walk of Fame in NY rightly proclaims ‘The 70’s Belonged to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis wonderfully moving documentary follows the progress of Gene Robinson who in 2004 was elected as the 1st openly Gay priest Episcopalian Bishop. In 2008 he also became the first Bishop to be banned from attending the powerful Lambeth Conference (the highest forum of the Anglican Church) in London but he traveled there anyway in the hope of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe late great Charles Nelson Reilly had a tough start to life: a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a loud-mouth racist mother and he was the only gay kid on the block in the Bronx back in the 1940’s. Who would have guessed then that he would have ended up as Tony Winning Actor, acclaimed Broadway … Continue reading
