queertiques
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The Chunta : where men have been dressing up like women for centuries
Queer filmmaker Genevieve Roudané debut documentary is a fascinating study of a queer gang of gender-bending dancers fighting to exist in Chiapa de Corzo a remote small town in Mexico. To celebrate the old year ending and the New Year beginning the men dress up as women for a Fiesta night of dancing and…
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Sid & Judy : the life of a tortured genius
In the Queerguru Office right now we are having (yet) another Judy Garland moment. And why shouldn’t we for as gay filmmaker Stephen Kijak has stated it is in our DNA and he’s a kind of expert on both. As we eagerly await to see Miss Zellweger’s star turn in the new biopic JUDY…
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Downton Abbey : the best feel-good movie of the year (so far)
Watching the glorious movie version of Downton Abbey on the big screen is just like being welcomed back home to old (rather grand) friends who we have missed . Of course we are not the visitors that Lord and Lady Grantham (Hugh Bonneville & Elizabeth McGovern) are expecting as they have just received a…
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Where’s my Roy Cohn? : Trump misses his odious mentor
It should be really no shock to see how amoral the odious lawyer and manipulator extraordinaire Roy Cohn was, but after watching Matt Tyrnauer’s impressive piece of investigation, we realise that most of us never knew the half of it. His time as the lackey and confidente of Senator Joseph McCarthy the self appointed…
