queertiques
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Erik & Erika
Erik and Erika is the dramatization of the extraordinary life story of Austrian World Skiing Champion Erika Schinegger who relinquished her title when she finally became Erik. Born in 1948 to a farmer’s wife, as the baby had no physical signs of any genitalia, the midwife declared that she was a girl, and the family…
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Consequences
This very first LGBT movie made in Slovenia makes for very scary viewing. This debut feature from filmmaker Darko Stante is a brutal twist on a coming out tale that is both compelling and and also shockingly violent. It’s the tale of Andrej (an exceptionally talented Matej Zemljic) a dispirited teenager who drifts from one…
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STRAIGHT A : short touching coming out story
Asian/American filmmaker Todd Lien’s touching short film is based on his own life and how he came out to his father, Made as part of his New York Film Academy MFA Program, and in it Lien plays version of himself in the story of how tough it was to balance of his secretive 4…
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Staccato : a 19th Century tale of Upstairs/Downstairs gay love
Set in the 1800’s this short film is an Upstairs/Downstairs tale where the aristocratic young master of the House Thomas Croydon (Craig Granger) falls for Sean (Kevin O’Malley) one of his hunky gardeners. In a story that is equally passionate and histrionic, it shows a side of life we will never see in Downton Abbey Directed…
