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BFI celebrates with 50 years of queer cinema
Everyone in the UK seems fully intent of not letting the 50th Anniversary of the passing of the Law to decriminalize homosexuality to slip by unnoticed. Now the latest organization to join in is the British Film Institute (BFI) who, amongst other things, run BFI Flare London’s annual LGBT Film Festival. In an announcement…
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Does God Hate Queers?
UK’s BBC is one of the many British institutions that are putting on special cultural events to mark the 50th Anniversary of the de-criminalization of homosexuality in the country. They have launched a rather stunning TV series called Queer Britain presented by YouTuber and journalist Riyadh Khalaf which plans to get under the skin of queer…
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Fairy Tales for Lovers & Fighters
In a perfect world queerguru would jetting around the globe to a different film festival every week, and one very high on our priorities would be the Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival up in Calgary, Alberta. About to have its 19th Edition they strive to celebrate local and national queer artists and share diverse stories…
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The End of Silence : the notorious gay trials of 1950’s Frankfurt
Just a few years before President Eisenhower kicked off the biggest LGBT witchhunt in the US’s history which became known as The Lavender Scare, over in Germany they were having their own gay persecutions too. Not long after the end of WW2 when Germany was trying to re-build itself, and the LGBT community was emerging once…
