queertiques
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Gay Chorus : Deep South and their message of hope
It seems like perfect timing for this new film, the debut feature from director David Charles Rodrigues, a Brazilian American equal-rights advocate. After a new wave of homophobia bordering on violence which the present Administration seem content to sanction, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus became determined to counter-balance this with a message of…
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Love Blooms aka L’amour debout : a movie grown without purpose or plot
In one symbolic scene in this French sub titled movie the characters, fueled by curiosity, determinedly follow a sleep walker to find out where he is going. It turns out he is not sleepwalking he is just out for the pleasure of a stroll in the garden. If that is all that is wanted from…
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Seahorse : The Dad Who Gave Birth
Jeanie Finlay’s simpatico documentary about Freddy McConnell a determined Brit trans man who wants to give birth is a remarkable testament of faith by McConnell in allowing the cameras to film every part of his extraordinary journey. To avoid the story becoming the slightest bit sensationalized McConnell had assembled his own crew to be…
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Everything Is Free (although you often end up paying anyway)
After Brian Jordan Alvarez made his delightful web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, and before he hit the mainstream playing Jack’s new husband Estefan Gloria in Will and Grace he created this rather compelling love story in 2017. Alvarez wrote, directed, edited, starred in and even wrote the some of…
