queertiques
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews DREAMING WALLS : Inside The Chelsea Hotel
New York’s infamous W. 23rd St. Chelsea Hotel, ‘a rest stop for rare individuals’, reopened earlier this year, completely refurbished into yet another luxury hotel. About 40 of the rooms are still occupied by its original artist/creative tenants, who are protected, rent-stabilized long-term residents. The controversial stop-start remodeling work took about 11 years…
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Here’s the QUEER part of 24th Edition of Provincetown Film Festival
This week sees the 24th Edition of the annual PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL with five days of “unflinching cinema”. Like the Cape Cod town it is situated this is one of the most diverse film festivals ever in the US, and like its population, has a very significant queer presence. Continuing the hybrid schedule that…
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ALL MAN : The International Male Story : how clothing played a significant role in the evolution of the queer community
All Man: The International Male Story, is a compelling feature documentary debut of Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed that highlights a crucial part of queer history. It may not be as serious as events like the Stonewell Riots but it most certainly plays its own role in the evolution of the queer community.…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews ‘Becoming A Queen’ ….. of the Carnival
A LEGACY OF WOMANHOOD, CARNIVAL HISTORY, AND CARIBBEAN CULTURE The year is 2018, and the film tells the real-life story of Joella Crichton, an actress, a York University graduate, and a contestant for thirteen years at the Caribana Festival that takes place during the summer in Toronto, Canada, where she has been reigning…
