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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews Caroline Litman’s memoir ‘HER NAME IS ALICE’ on how ‘the system failed’ her trans daughter
On the 26th May 2022, Caroline Litman received news that no parent should have to hear, news that would change everything: her youngest daughter had died by suicide. Alice was 20, and by that time had waited almost three years to get an appointment at a gender identity clinic. Caroline channelled her grief and wrote…
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Atlanta’s OUT ON FILM : LGBTQ Fest celebrates with its 2026 Spring Mini Fest
As the Queer Film Fest 2026 global circuit is about to kick off for real with BFI Flare in London, we are going to squeeze in a side trip to Atlanta. Their big gig OUT ON FILM happens in the Fall, but Fest Director Jim Farmer thinks that is way too long to wait (question:…
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Queerguru reviews Renée Marie Petropoulos’s 4th short film ‘SOUVENIR’ screening at SXSW
I have to confess that until now I had never given much thought to the subject matter of Australian queer filmmaker Renée Marie Petropoulos‘s 4th short film SOUVENIR. It’s the story of two teenage girls Keira and Zoe who fall in love while on a family holiday in some tropical paradise. They seem to spend…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews THE MIRROR a short homo erotic tale by Noel Alejandro NSFW
In the bedroom of a cozy apartment, Roberto (Marco Merenda) and Julian (Bast) hug and kiss each other tenderly, Julian suggests to share a joint, for Roberto visions and paranoia come alive as does a blue/greenish man named Elisium (Raúl Gordillo), the third subject of this emotional story that relates to the end of a…
