queertiques
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Dating Amber : and pretending to be straight
Out-gay filmmaker David Freyne returns to his native Kildare in Ireland for the his latest film a delightful coming-out comedy that has a more than a passing reference to his own story . Set in 1995 a period Freyne comments was a time when so many films about being gay focused on people dying…
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Gimme One : Andrew Hebden reviews a BFI London World Premiere
Queerguru won’t be camped out at London’s Leicester Square for the British Film Festival this year. Social distancing has forced most of the content online. We’re gutted. On lockdown since March it’s another grim nail in the coffin of the UK art scene. Or so we thought. However this little surprise from director Montague…
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No Hard Feelings : a queer story of race, belonging and love
When Iranian/German filmmaker Faraz Shariat was 19 years old he imported a security detacher from China and used it to take off the security tags from clothes in department stores. In time he got caught shoplifting and was sentenced to community service which he did by becoming a translator in a refugee shelter. That was…
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Mr Soul! the queer man who was the pioneer of Black TV in the US
Growing up as a white Jewish kid in London in the 1960’s carried with it a great deal of cultural delights in a decade that was hailed as ‘swinging,’ but as I grow older I realise that my slice of middle-class England was so frightfully British. We may have given birth to the Beatles…
