queertiques
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Darkroom : Drops of Death : the story of a gay serial killer
The veteran filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim who is also Germany’s most famous gay activist and has made over 150 short and feature films to date. His latest movie, currently playing the Film Festival circuit, is a thriller loosely adapted on one of the most notorious gay serial killers whose story played out in the…
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THE THIRD : Is Three in a Bed is better than Two?
For many gay men the idea of maintaining a romantic relationship is still a daunting task. Never having queer role models when we grew up and often living in hostile homophobic households didn’t exactly prepare us for establishing our own family units. The thought then of including a third person into such a relationship…
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Bittersweet Waters : Being in love & true to oneself in rural Mexico
Chicago based Jesús Canchola Sánchez’s hauntingly beautiful film is one of the most impressive LGBTQ feature film debuts we have seen in a very long time.. Most of the credit goes to Sánchez who not only wrote and directed it, but he also produced and starred in it too. As the title hints, this…
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Pageant Material : a queer take on Cinderalla
For his feature film directorial debut Jonothon Mitchell has queered up everyone’s favorite childhood fairy story : Cinderella. In Mitchell’s take the heroine is a hero, albeit a ‘fairy’ one, who lives in the Deep South with his wicked step daddy and his two thuggish step-brothers who literally want to beat the life out of…
