queertiques
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Queerguru reviews ‘BOOTS’ one of Netflix’s best ever queer TV series (that you will love as much as The Pentagon hates)
There can be no better way to ensure that BOOTS, a Netflix TV series about a bullied gay youth who joins the Marines, is a mega smash than having it condemned so publicly by the Pentagon. If you had thought that the ex FOX newsreader now in charge of what is still legally the US…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the brilliant ‘Blue Moon’, directed by Richard Linklater starring Ethan Hawke & Andrew Scott
Breaking up is hard to do, romantically or otherwise, especially in a very public scenario, and where alcohol is involved. Director Richard Linklater’s latest film, Blue Moon, examines the tragic 1940s professional break-up between Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) and his composing partner Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott). The duo, America’s Gilbert and Sullivan, were…
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Queerguru reviews MAJOR! the story of iconic transgender legend Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Annalise Ophelian’s documentary MAJOR! is an affectionate profile of one of the greatest leaders of the transgender community Major Griffin-Gracy who has just died aged 78. Known to most people simply as Miss Major or Major she is a larger-than-life old school activist who leads by example helping literally hundreds of trans-women of color,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Maspalomas, an interesting character study about what happens when an older man goes back into the closet.
Vicente (Jose Ramon Soroiz) is having the time of his life. Newly single after a twenty-five-year relationship, the penniless seventy-five-year-old gay man has moved to Maspalomas, staying with a friend in the hedonistic queer enclave in Gran Canaria, Spain. There, by day he hangs out on the beach and cruises in the dunes, and at…
