Who’d have thought that going to an art exhibition in Brighton would lead me to one of the best books I’ve read this year? The book in question is ‘ME Caveman you narcissist’ by Steve Attwell and I sa...

If you loved either the Broadway version or the film of the multi-award-winning DREAMGIRLS, you are in for a treat this fall. A Chris Rock-directed film  MISTY GREEN is about to hit our screens, featu...

Queer Londoners, who once included QG’s editor in their number, are always so reluctant to admit that from time to time some of the best queer theatre events are held in the Burbs.  Enough with the sc...

‘Who am I?’, ‘Maybe you could tell me who I am?’ These are the two questions Logan Lynn asks his audience at the start of his documentary ‘The Pain and the Power: The Life and Crimes of Logan Lynn’. O...

Since winning Scottish Comedian of the Year in 2013, cheeky, gay Glaswegian Larry Dean’s star has been steadily rising. From a darling of the Edinburgh Fringe to London, he has made numerous appearanc...

In Fully Dilated, Julian Clary promises to reveal “intimate secrets of my life and share the traumas that have led me to lead the life of a camp comic and renowned homosexual” Some background for the ...

Artist Julie Bowers Murphy divides her time between Manhattan and Provincetown, which is at the very tip of the end of Cape Cod.  However, just by looking at her work, it’s very obvious where her hear...

When they started this event in 2013, the organisers of Trans Pride Brighton could barely have thought that the rights they were gradually winning would be methodically removed over the ensuing years....

The creative queer folk that runs OUTFEST, LA’s LGBTQIA+ FILM FESTIVAL, told QUEERGURU that it is so much more than four days of screenings; they say it’s a rallying cry and a homecoming.  And as usua...

It’s right in the middle of the LONDON QUEER FRINGE FESTIVAL now with over 50 queer shows, with multiple performances, for and by queer people.  There’s drag, musicals, comedy, drama, theatre and spok...

We can always trust director Jeffrey Schwarz to deliver compelling documentaries about queer social history. The maker of I Am Divine, Tab Hunter Confidential, The Fabulous Allan Carr, Boulevard! A Ho...

Paris Lees is an author, campaigner and journalist. In 2019, she interviewed Emma Watson for British Vogue (https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/emma-watson-on-fame-activism-little-women). A vocal act...

The 250th anniversary of Independence Day is a once-in-a-lifetime event to celebrate our history and to ponder what the next 250 years will bring. Pride In The 4th is calling on Americans of all backg...

Many of us have had friendships with very controlling people. That unpredictable friend who blows hot and cold with you, builds you up and takes you down, makes you do things you don’t want to do, and...

Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun already has a reputation for making and supporting personal, art-driven cinema, and their latest film seems destined to be their most successful to date. Jane brought TEENAGE...

Most of you reading this will know that during the winter months, the QUEERGURU HQ heads south.  We have paid our dues for all those bitterly cold/wet London winters that shaped our past. We settled i...

So many of us in the LGBTQ+ community have faced such disapproval and abandonment from our blood family when we ‘came out’ that we end up forming our own ‘chosen family.‘ It is therefore so very refre...

Few movies set the scene with such succinct clarity as ‘Test’ from writer (and lead) Brock Yurich and director Sam McConnell. Here, we watch as a handsome and very muscled man, wearing nothing but a c...

PINK has never appeared on Broadway.  Until now, that is.  Some genius producer had the inspired idea of having her star in a spectacular opening number for this year’s Tony Awards.  She should have w...

Talk about finding  Love on the Dancefloor.  Well, Florida-based pop-dance duo CX2 Ryder did just that and ended up as husband and husband and are now making music together. Their debut single Connect...

Queerquru first met Sasha Waters in Provincetown, where we live every summer. The town is the oldest art colony in the US and has a history of being home to some of the country’s finest artists and wr...

When filmmakers Silas Howard + Harry Dodge wrote, starred and directed BY HOOK AND. BY CROOK they described it as ” a movie about butches by butches.” That was some 25 years ago, and bending gender li...

Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, is the longest-running, largest, and most widely recognized queer film fest in the world. In June 2026.  And still one of Queerguru’s f...

When it comes to reviewing major indie Film Festivals such as Tribeca it’s often the shorts that make the most powerful punches and are what remain in your memory sometime after.  I’m Not Home is one ...

I have to admit that I approached Richard Gadd’s new BBC and HBO series, Half Man, with some reservations. The violent working-class Scotsman is a trope that is too familiar and reinforces a national ...

It seems that everyone has a podcast these days; it’s the great leveller. From Hollywood stars like Amy Poehler interviewing Carol Burnett, Jon Hamm & Viola Davis to dating advice from the host of ‘Na...

When the Orange Man was in Beijing yesterday, no doubt bitching about the quality of Chinese McDonald’s and other ‘worldly matters that are swirling around in his demented mind,’ the King of England w...

If you are a regular reader of this website, you will know by now that not only are we passionate about queer history, but we are also determined that it should be told and recorded by members of our ...

This is a remake and adaptation directed by Fernando González Molina from the original 1972 Spanish film directed by Jaime de Armiñán, starring José Luis López Vásquez, made,  inexplicably,  under the...

Homosexuality remains illegal in 69 countries around the world. Queer life in some of those countries is so dangerous that many people leave everything behind and endure long, torturous journeys, ille...

Dame Joan is Back!  Not that she ever went far, but the Brit Prima Donna will be back on our TV screens later this month in A MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS, an enjoyable, “Agatha Christie-esque” whodunit. Th...

The problem of medical negligence continues to persist within health care organizations; however, its effects on the LGBTQ population have their own specificities. Discrimination, poor training of spe...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of Protease Inhibitors, which was a major sea change for people with HIV and AIDS.   Literally overnight, being diagnosed with either of these was ...

Smoke is the latest play by London-based actor-playwright Alexis Gregory (Riot Act). Directed by Campbell X (Stud Life, Low Rider), Smoke is a brutal monologue that observes the psychotic downward spi...