queertiques
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Song Lang : the compelling story of an unlikely love
Leon Le’s heart-string-pulling story of a love that goes unconsummated is probably the the first LGBTQ movie from Vietnam that we have ever seen. If this is to be the standard bearer of a new source of queer cinema then we cannot wait to see what could follow that would match this. Set in…
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The Skin of the Teeth : Queerguru goes down the rabbit hole so you don’t have to
Styled as “Grindr meets Get Out” this claustrophobic and at times atmospheric contemporary fable might make some think twice before popping the next anonymous pill with the next anonymous guy. Josef King (Pascal Arquimedes) is over for a follow up date to a random hook up he made in a club with Jesse, whose…
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How to Get From Here to There
Sci-Fi is a film genre we rarely see in moveies with LGBTQ story lines, and maybe there is a good reason for that . This low-budget debut feature from Kevin James Thornton who wrote, directed and starred in. plus writing & performing some of the music tracks is one such film which, even with…
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Game Girls : a lesbian couple making a life together of sorts on Skid Row
Game Girls the sophomore documentary from Alina Skrzeszewska filmed in cinema-verite mode is a highly emotional view of the rocky relationship of two African/American young lesbians living in LA’s notorious Skid Row which seems like the end of the world. When the film starts Terim who is coping with mental illness, is going to…
