queertiques
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Hold My Hand
Most of us had a triggering point in our lives that brought the need for us to (finally) come out of the closet as gay …….or somewhere on the LGBTQIA spectrum. For 17-year-old Billy (Jordi Rea ) the moment came when he accompanied his girlfriend to the local Tattoo Store and he was immediately mesmerized by…
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Hooked
The social media star and model/actor Max Emerson courageously took on the pressing topic of homeless LGBT youth for his feature film writing/directing debut. This fictionalized story was evidently inspired by the countless troubling emails Emerson received from when, at the grand old age of 25, he published his own memoir Hot Sissy – Life Before Flashbulbs. He…
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Al Berto
This biopic from filmmaker Vicente Alves do Ó is a fictionalized and highly dramatic account of a traumatic period in the life of the gay Portuguese Poet Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares who was universally known simply as Al Berto. It’s set in the mid-1970’s when a very young Al Berto (Ricardo Teixeira) has just returned home to…
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The Gospel According To André
Fashion Guru and former Editor-at-Large for American Vogue André Leon Talley puts a whole new meaning on the expression ‘larger-than-life’. In this very affectionate profile on him, filmmaker Kate Novack simply points her cameras at Talley and lets him perform. This charismatic African-American tastemaker loves the sound of his own voice as he gives his…
