queertiques
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It’s Only The End of The World
French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s latest impassioned cinematic outing, and his most mature to date, is a family drama that consists of a lot of very long wordy speeches, yet it is essential about what is not being said about the elephant in the room. 42-year-old Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) has come back to his family…
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FTWTF : Female To What The Fuck
This second documentary from Austrian filmmakers Katharina Lampert and Cordula Thym with its most prefect title, tells the story of several people who fit somewhere along the genderqueer spectrum, but most of them are still undecided exactly where they want to be right now on this sliding scale. All of them were born as women but have chosen to…
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Even with the major advances that the LGBT community has made in the past few decades it is still not blessed with an over-abundance of its own heroes/role models. It therefore comes as no surprise that when one rises up and is blessed with an incredible innate talent to articulate how many of us feel, and…
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Handsome Devil
Writer/director John Butler’s enchanting coming-of-age movie about two very likable 16-year-old boys in an Irish Boarding School seems to sidestep some of the grittier aspects of homophobia to ensure that the end result is an engagingfeel-good movie that the LGBT community is bound to make it into one of the more popular hits of…
