queertiques
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Netflix’s TORE a superb queer drama from Sweden that is shockingly good
27th-year-old Willam Spetz made his name in his native Sweden as a TikTok star but now he has created, written, and starred in TORE a superb quirky queer drama that is shockingly good. He plays the lead character who is awkwardly closeted and in the very first episode is left orphaned when his…
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RAINBOW RISHTA : an unfiltered look at the lives, aspirations, and desires of the people from the fledging Indian LGBTQIA+ community.
India is another of those countries that were once part of the British Empire and even after the Brits left and India became a republic they left behind some of the puritanical Laws they had enacted during the Victorian era. One of these in 1861 made male homosexuality illegal and it remained on the…
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New PBS Doc ‘THE WAR ON DISCO’ investigates the late 1970s when angry homophobes and racists tried to stop the music….
For most of us (of a certain age) our passion for everything disco peaked in 1977 with John Travolta’s swagger in the opening scenes of Saturday Night Fever. The film resulted in the Best Actor Oscar Nomination for Travolta but for the rest of the world, it shepherded in a whole new movement…
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Netflix’s NUOVO OLIMPON : an Italian queer couple who try to survive a dangerous period in time after falling madly in love.
If Ferzan Özpetek is not Queerguru’s favorite queer Italian filmmaker, then he is definitely near the top of our list. This Turkish-born Italian captured our attention with Hamam (Steam: The Turkish Baths) in 1997. He then went on to capture our hearts with his multi-award-winning The Ignorant Fairies (released in the US/UK as His Secret Life. Since…
