Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWhen London-based queer filmmaker Joseph Wilson came out of a San Francisco Club late one summer’s night last year, he spotted a rather larger-than-life blonde sitting in her cadillac and waving a torchlight around checking the crowd out. He was immediately drawn to her and struck up a conversation with Miss Shannon Pat a 66-year-old Californian … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe ‘T’ in LGBT travel stands for transgender, but the reality is that the trans men and women are in fact poorly served by our community’s tour operators who focus mainly on gay men. That however may start to change, especially if Stephanie Land has her way. This transgendered woman who has been working … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSome people wait an awful long time before they start to come to terms with the fact there were born with the wrong gender, or indeed have the wherewithal to deal with it. Gloria Stein is one such person as she waited until she was 66 years old until she transitioned. In this slightly stranger-than-fiction … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLily Wachowski, one half of the celebrated filmmaking duo who made the lesbian classic movie Bound, but are best known for The Matrix movies , came out as transgender yesterday in a very inspirational and eloquent statement to Chicago’s leading LGBT newspaper Windy City Times. After been door-stepped by a reporter from the UK’s notorious tabloid newspaper … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTo us non-residents of Harlem the fact that 25 years after Jenni Livingston’s seminal documentary Paris Is Burning, ‘voguing’ is very much alive in the dance clubs and community spaces in this corner of New York is quite a shock. In fact it’s been re-shaped and re-invented to bring it more in line with the needs and … Continue reading
