To A More Perfect Union: United States v. Windsor
To anyone who followed the case of Edie Windsor, an unlikely looking LGBT activist, who took on the might of the US legal system and won, this extremely moving documentary from Donna Zaccaro doesn’t actually reveal anything new about this groundbreaking case. What it does, however, is succinctly put the major facts all together … Continue reading
Queerguru reviews Jennifer M Kroots affectionate profile doc TO BE TAKEI
If you were one of those people who thought that George Takei aka Sulu had retired along with the USS Enterprise over 20 years ago, you would be greatly mistaken. Since then, and particularly after he eventually officially ‘came out’ as a gay man in 2005, it’s been nigh on impossible to avoid seeing him … Continue reading
Toast
The 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
Trans In Trumpland : on our screens soon
Hot on the heels of Sam Feder’s excellent Netflix documentary DISCLOSURE comes breaking news about another investigation into the ‘plight’ of the trans community in the US. Feder’s film is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Whereas … Continue reading
Transformistas : the pioneer drag queens of Santa Clara, Cuba
Despite its setting of poverty and oppression there is a real sense of joy and elation in the lives of the Cuban drag queens captured in Transformistas (the local term for Drag) this new documentary. Cuba has always held conflicting and ambiguous views on homosexuality. Even though in 1981, the Ministry of Culture … Continue reading