queertiques
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Ahead of the Curve : how Frances Stevens created the world”s best selling lesbian magazine
It’s a sad realisation of how segregated the LGBTQ community is when as a gay male you discover that you never heard of Frances “Franco” Stevens the powerhouse publisher/activist who founded Curve Magazine, the best selling lesbian magazine.of all time. This new movie corrects that somewhat as it shows how ground-breaking the magazine was…
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Trans In Trumpland : on our screens soon
Hot on the heels of Sam Feder’s excellent Netflix documentary DISCLOSURE comes breaking news about another investigation into the ‘plight’ of the trans community in the US. Feder’s film is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Whereas…
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Life Is Easy : until you swap bodies with you BF
Life Is Easy is a manically paced farcical web series from New Zealand that puts its own cute spin on the old ‘B Movie’ dilemma of body swapping. Written by and starring pansexual actress Chye-Ling Huang and out gay actor Cole Jenkins as Jamie Li and Curtis. It’s the story of a young gay…
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Transformistas : the pioneer drag queens of Santa Clara, Cuba
Despite its setting of poverty and oppression there is a real sense of joy and elation in the lives of the Cuban drag queens captured in Transformistas (the local term for Drag) this new documentary. Cuba has always held conflicting and ambiguous views on homosexuality. Even though in 1981, the Ministry of Culture…
