queertiques
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A Luv Tale : about 4 queer women in Harlem
It’s been 20 years since director’ Sidra Smith’s debut film A Luv Tale played the Film Festival circuit and picked up a couple of Audience Awards. Now she is back with a 6 part web series of the same name that picks up where she left off with the story of the lives of…
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State of Pride : YouTube star Raymond Braun investigates
When queer Oscar winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedmann were commissioned by YouTube Originals to make a documentary to mark the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall they chose Raymond Braun a young LGBT YouTube star to front the project. Braun, once recognized on Forbes’ 30 under 30, was born 21 years after the Riots…
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Dragtime : looking back in time
A great wee find on YouTube (so its free) is this thoroughly entertaining HBO documentary by then newbie director Patti Kaplan about some of our favorite Drag Queens. The year is 1997 and Jeff Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman is so young he is totally unrecognizable in men’s attire : Lady Bunny had more…
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Six Characters In Search Of A Play : the work of Del Shores wickedly funny imagination
Queer writer/performer DEL SHORES is the comic genius who created classic gay plays/films such as Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies that made us all re-think about what it’s like to be queer in the Deep South. It wasn’t just Brother Boy that gave Leslie Jordan the best role of his career, it was…
