queertiques
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The Christmas Setup : when Mom plays matchmaker for her gay son
The final mainstream TV Holiday LGBTQ movie Queerguru is reviewing this season comes from the Lifetime Channel. It’s known for its crowd-pleasing programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. On this occasion the star is Fran Drescher known for all those years playing The Nanny, and she is cast…
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Dashing in December : a queer Christmas Cowboy story
The LGBTQ community’s fascination with gay cowboys long predates Brokeback Mountain the 2005 Oscar Winning movie that made us all fall in love with Heath Ledger. Yet some 15 years later there is still such a shortage of them on the big and small screen so that we got positively excited just about the…
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Sh-T and Champagne
D’Arcy Drollinger is a perfect name for a drag queen, but it appears for once this is not actually the figment of someone’s imagination, but possibly their actual birth name. Anyway, Drollinger is an actor, writer, musician, director, producer & choreographer and also the larger-than-life owner of SF gay nightclub Oasis. For the past…
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Funny Boy : a tender queer love story set in a time of war
Having just reviewed Jon Garcia’s excellent drama about a relationship set and filmed in the COVID Lockdown, we are beginning to realize his title Love In Dangerous Times could have also be used by a whole multitude of other movies. Especially ones with an LGBTQ story lIne. For example Funny Boy is a coming-of-age…
