queertiques
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Could the First KIss be the Last Kiss ?
Brit queer filmmaker Simon Anderson’s short almost-romantic drama takes place in the idyllic English countryside at night after Sam’s brother’s wedding. The happy couple have gone to bed and as Sam (Matthew Tennyson) is in the garden a night cap , he starts up a conversation with Nick (Nigel Allen) one of his brother’s…
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I Was Not Born A Mistake : one women’s journey to finding her true identity
There are no two stories of transitioning that are the same, and Yiscah Smith’s tale about her own particular journey is probably one of the most intriguing we have ever seen. Born in a devout Observant Jewish family in Brooklyn as Yakov Smith and as a boy at school Smith was picked on and bullied…
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The Son : a touching story on the plight of queer Syrians that the Arab world wants Banned
One of the perks/joys of being a Movie Critic * is that we can easily get to see anything that is already being hyped as controversial or troublesome. In this case it is a particular episode of the brand new LITTLE AMERICA TV series that an alarmed queer media is protesting has been banned…
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Sunset : It’s never easy to say goodbye
Made in 2017 this gay short story is about a reluctant parting between a soldier about to head off to War (WW2) and his drag-queen lover who had been rejected for military service on the grounds that he was a ‘sexual psychopath’. The couple had just made love and Peter (NIccolo Walsh) was trying to…
