queertiques
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LYDIA : the very real story of the determined transwoman who won the rights of gender recognition for the Irish community
Given the uncertain political climate emanating from the US, based on hate and aimed at destroying the queer community….particulary the trans part, then the release of this new wee Irish documentary is perfectly timed. Lydia is a short film about the groundbreaking and history-making legal battle of Dr Lydia Foy fighting for her gender to…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘Charlie Is Not A Boy’ …is a tale untold.
The son of a disreputable butcher and a catatonic mother who neglects him, Charlie reminds me of a white bird. He has a grandmother who nourishes him with fantasy and love; they both share a space that is a sacred nest. Set within an allegorical America, grotesque relations and situations allow the narrative to flow, revealing…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm’s “Notes on Jacob Elordi and “Wuthering Heights”
Like Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, Jacob Elordi introduces an erotic, toxic masculinity into the feminine fantasy world of Emerald Fennell’s melodramatic “Wuthering Heights.” Amidst the old Hollywood technicolour campery of Fennell’s adolescent fever dream, his Heathcliff is broody and serious, stern and monochromatic. It’s as if he is playing Hamlet to Margot…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews “Young, Black, and Gifted: Diversity at the Paris Opera”
Classical ballet is rooted in the culture of the past and still carries with it the prejudices of old white European colonialism. Only in recent years have Black dancers begun to gain access to this exclusive world. Even now, traditionalists cling to an all-white cast, arguing for supposed aesthetic purity, homogeneity, and pointing to the technical…
