queertiques
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AIDS DIVA The Legend of Connie Norman
In the second half of the last Century when the LGBTQ community found its very survival was at risk, even at its darkest moments there was usually also a bright beacon of light and hope. As the AIDS pandemic devastated us indiscriminately in the 1980’s most of us felt overwhelmed and helpless, but there…
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Queerguru @BFI Flare : SWEETHEART
Throw aside any expectations that Marly Morrison’s Sweetheart will be an achingly Gen Z teen zeitgeist movie and embrace the fact that it belongs to the classic British genre of sexually awkward teen meets nightmare seaside family holiday. Go with it because that is what makes its humiliating inevitability so sweet. April Jane or AJ…
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Queerguru @BFI Flare : JUMP, DARLING ….. Cloris Leachman’s exquisite swan song
When you reach the end of the road you are on, what can you do? There are two answers, you stop or change direction. In Cloris Leachman’s final film made prior to her death, both these alternates are explored, and the poignancy is inescapable. Leachman plays Grams, the aging grandmother grown tired, frail, and distanced…
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Potato Dreams of America
Wes Hurley aka Vasili Naumenko is a queer performance artist/filmmaker and a stalwart of Seattle’s burgeoning drag and cabaret scene who has finally told his life story in film. Well, technically this is the second time around as his short film Little Potato did that too and picked up some 20 + awards for…
