queertiques
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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…
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The Fight : how the ACLU takes on Trump
It’s literally impossible to make any record of the political shenanigans of the last 4 years of the Trump White House without depressing the hell out of all of us. With a spirited but ineffective Democratic Party in opposition, it has seemed that there is no way to stop the sheer wholesale dismantling of…
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AMBROSIA : the story of an exceptional Italian queer performer
Vincenzo D’Ambrosi, who calls himself an androgynous boy, is a 24 year old queer artist who performs a European cabaret-style drag at “La Boum” – Milan’s premiere gay club. Born in Naples where his family live in an apartment over their Tobacco Store in which his mother toils 18 hour days without a break. …
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The Defintion of Lonely : QUEERGURU’s Short Of The Week
This award-winning feel-good movie from Brit queer filmmaker LEON LOPEZ is Queerguru’s favorite short of the week.. Shot in 2017 and starring Nick Hayes, Lucas Rush and Lola the dog. with music by Tom Fletcher, THE DEFINITION OF LONELY is a truly delightful story of two men and the dog that brings them together.…
