queertiques
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Queer Cornwall : the stories of three LGBTQIA+ trailblazer artists who made their home in this tiny fishing village
Lamorna is a small fishing village on the Cornish coast, in the far southwest of England. The expansive skies and landscapes of the area have long been a draw for artists, most famously painters associated with the Newlyn school such as Laura Knight, Alfred Munnings, and Lamorna Birch. It’s relatively unknown even though it is just a mere 13…
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REBEL HEARTS the story of the nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church
Rebel Hearts is Director Pedro Kos’s fascinating documentary about an activist group of feminist nuns who fought for change within the Catholic Church in California during the 1960s. The 1950s and early 1960s were still a very patriarchal society in America with women expected to miss higher education, marry young, bear children, and stay at…
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BELLO, Failure, Emotions and Redemption : a new film by Noel Alejandro (NSFW)
Born in Barcelona and currently based in Berlin, Noel Alejandro is an independent filmmaker and alternative adult films director whose work explores pornography as a tool to question society’s old standards. His films go beyond the explicit, being set to live in a blend between cinema and erotica. Noel’s force strives for a more sensitive…
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The Disappointments : dark comic web series about a group of gay men over 50
Just about to hit YouTube is The Disappointments a darkly comic web series that follows of a group of close friends in their 50s who, rocked by the suicide of one of their own, are forced to face the failures and disappointments in their own lives. Evidently based in part on actual events,…
