queertiques
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Summer of 85 : Ozon’s bittersweet queer teen romance
The queer French auteur François Ozon turns to a very English novel for the source of his latest bittersweet romance. Evidently, he read Aidan Chambers’s 1982 novel Dance on My Grave. when he was a teenager and this story of teen angst must have really resounded deeply with him that almost four decades later…
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BEING BEBE | The BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary : our review
Like many other queer men, it’s been a very long time since we watched any of the multitudes of manifestations of the ubiquitous Ru Paul’s Drag Race Series. The show has been stuck in a creative rut as it has dumbed down over the years, and it seems way past its sell-by date. However,…
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Being Thunder : the story of an indigenous Two Spirit Teen
French filmmaker Stéphanie Lamorré’s heart-touching documentary on teenage Sherenté Mishitashin is another very welcome contribution to the burgeoning dialogue about the transgender community. Sherenté is a gender-queer Two-Sprit teenager and a member of the Narragansett Tribal Nation in Rhode Island and this is their story. Lamorré’s very discreet camera captures a very determined and…
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Changing The Game: the trials and triumphs of three trans teen athletes
Michael Barnett’s thought-provoking documentary about the trials and triumphs of trans teenager athletes was made in the Trump era where society was encouraged to express rampant transphobia. In fact, violently oppose everything that was not about white cis-gendered men. Whilst the topic of trans sportsmen and women may surface in the media quite often, it…
