Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews STUDIO ONE FOREVER the story of the infamous LA gay club with a racist/sexist door policy

    Studio One Forever is a documentary about the infamous Studio One nightclub in West Hollywood, known for its racist and sexist door policies as much as anything else. Launched in 1974, the club ran for 19 years until 1993. Why Studio One decided to have racist and sexist door policies is not made … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SUMMER SOLSTICE : a story of non-binary unrequited love

  Leo (Bobbi Salvör Menuez) is a twenty-something softly-spoken actor, living a quiet, happy-go-lucky life in Brooklyn NY. He’s single but has a regular fuck-buddy – fellow actor Alice (Monica Sanborn) who is in and out of his life. He’d like to have a deeper romantic relationship with her but that’s not happening. His best … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SUNFLOWER a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama from Australia

Australia’s rough, macho culture is examined from a queer perspective in Sunflower, a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama set in the suburbs of Melbourne. Director/writer Gabriel Carrubba’s debut introduces us to Leo (Liam Mollica), a handsome, strapping seventeen-year-old high school student. His home is a working-class Greek-Italian household with his truck driver dad (Sal Galofaro), mum … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE AUSSIE BOYS a collection of the best new queer short films from Down Under

  Take a trip Down Under with these seven short stories, The Aussie Boys, featuring the lives and loves of a selection of guys from across Australia. From historical beginnings in the 1700’s all the way through to noughties truck stop dilemmas, present-day road trip romancing and faces from the past returning for a final … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE BACKSTREET an intimate new documentary about London’s longest surviving gay leather bar.

    The gay leather scene largely emerged in the US after the Second World War, when returning servicemen wanted to re-create the tough single sex conditions they had been exposed to during active service. Taking inspiration from both the military as well as Californian leather biker culture, the scene grew quickly in large American … Continue reading

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