Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s a sunny Sunday morning in Brooklyn and Mateo wakes his boyfriend Will up with a cup of coffee and a cupcake with single candle alight on top. Today is Will’s 30th birthday and in a few hours their rather wonderful garden apartment will be overflowing with friends at the celebration party they have been … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLaura and her younger brother Elliot are making a mad dash to their family home in New England after they have received an urgent phone call telling then that Lilly their terminally ill mother had just checked herself out of the hospital the day before. As they argue on the drive up there from Manhattan, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis very touching wee coming of age romance is set in a Melbourne suburb in Australia in the 1990’s when people still watched VHS tapes and wore baggy jeans. Michael is a teenager living with his divorced mother who is always off working, and with only one friend to his name, is very much a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMo is the sensitive and intelligent 14 year old son of Egyptian immigrants who live in the working class (blue collar) area of Hackney in London’s East End. He idolises his older brother Rashid who is a real tough guy and amateur boxer who avoids getting a regular job by being member of a street … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesRe-watching Yen Tan’s ‘Pit Stop’ ….. undoubtably one of the best gay movies this year …. prompted me to take another of the movies that he helmed in 2008 as that too has a remarkably touching romance that also, for very different reasons, is not destined to last for long ‘Ciao’ starts with Jeff coping … Continue reading
