queertiques
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Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
Tom Shepard started his excellent and unsettling documentary about the plight of a handful of LGBT refugees in what we now wistfully call the ‘good old days’ i.e. pre 2016. Up to then this country stood by its centuries old policy of giving refugee to all those in need. In fact Shepard points out…
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The Danish Boys – Danish without sugar
The Danish Boys collection of short films recently released from NQV Media has an unusual common trait across its diverse characters and circumstances. There is a focus on victimhood without redeeming purpose that is individually irritating and objectionable whilst collectively being oddly compelling. Centered around over familiar gay crucifixion scenes each ode to pain…
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The Acrobat: an act that few could handle
Not all of Canadian filmmaker Rodrique Jean’s output necessarily have LGBTQ content, but the last two he made ‘Love in The Time of Civil War’ and also Men For Sale are unapologetically about the street hustlers in NY. He uses the city again as the setting for his latest and by far his most extraordinary…
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Killing Patient Zero: the true story behind all the myths.
As a a gay men of a certain age who personally survived the brunt of the AIDS pandemic but lost a husband and far too many friends, Canadian filmmaker Laurie Lynd’s excellent new documentary is way overdue. Like most people we had bought the story that the whole epidemic was started by a promiscuous…
