queertiques
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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE FILMS @ OUTfest : LA’s LGBTQIA+ FILM FESTIVAL
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 usual, they will launch a collective vision of queer storytelling: fluid, genre-breaking, and radically present. It’s a space where strength…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’, a brilliant documentary by Jeffrey Schwarz about the controversy around the cult 1980 queer film Cruising.
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 Hollywood Story and Vito is back with Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, the story of the controversy around the making of the 1980 queer cult-classic film…
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SWEATMEAT by Bart Hess : two Bodies are locked in a fight choreography with a sweet prize
This very short film SWEETMEAT from Dutch artist Bart Hess really appealed to Queerguru Editor, who has an insatiable appetite for candy (amongst other things). In the film, Hess frames a playful performance at the intersection of machismo and homoeroticism as two opponents lock bodies. Engaged in a fight choreography, while eating sweets from each…
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Brian J Smith’s love letter to queer life on Fire Island ‘A HOUSE IS NOT A DISCO’ is now streaming online
Queerguru first talked to actor-turned-filmmaker Brian J Smith about his debut behind the camera, which is his love letter to Fire Islandmwhen the film premiered 2 years ago. We are revisiting the interview now that A HOUSE IS NOT A DISCO is streaming on line The place is evocative to so many queers around…
