queertiques

  • The Queens who all want to be Miss Continental

    The Queens who all want to be Miss Continental

      It’s a bit of mystery why it took several  years for filmmaker Mark Saxenmeyer to get his documentary The Queens finally released.  It’s a powerful story of a fascinating slice of queer history although it so poorly edited that it so often fails to  do  justice to all the ‘girls’ sharing their remarkable stories,…

  • Present Still Perfect : a queer Thai love story

    Present Still Perfect : a queer Thai love story

      Only recently we shared  the announcement that  GagaOOLala  the largest queer Asian streaming service has now gone global making it the first  and only queer Asian video-on-demand service in the world . (https:// queerguru.com/the-first-global-queer-asian-video-on-demand-service-is-launched/) Now hot on the heels of that Queerguru has just received two movies from new-wave Thai filmmaker  Aam Anusorn Soisa-ngim…

  • James Baldwin I Am Not Your Negro : Special Free Online Screening

    James Baldwin I Am Not Your Negro : Special Free Online Screening

      O Cinema in Miami announces thanks to the support of Knight Foundation who will work with Magnolia Pictures to make the documentary I Am Not Your Negro (June 7th) available for FREE.  The film screening (and that of two others) are being made possible thanks to the support of Knight Foundation, which has generously…

  • The Generation That Fought Hardest To Come Out is Going Back In

    The Generation That Fought Hardest To Come Out is Going Back In

      Queer filmmaker Stu Maddux’s award winning film GEN SILENT about the plight facing many LGBTQ seniors is now 10 years old.  That makes us all 10 years closer for all of us  to have to personally confront the issues that his very moving documentary covered. Most of the seniors in the Film are LGBT…