queertiques
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Bayard and Me
This brief documentary about the legendary Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin from filmmaker Matt Wolf doesn’t undertake to tell the detailed story of one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s mentors, as it is more a tribute to him by Walter Naegle his partner for ten years at the time of his death in 1987.…
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Maybe Tomorrow
Being gay and in love with your best straight friend (who also thinks you are straight) is hardly a new tale. In fact its the one that most LGBT people have personally experienced at some time or other in their life. It does however take on an extra frisson when it happens in a…
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Hot To Trot
Choosing exactly who to be the main subjects in a documentary that will take over four years to shoot is always a major gamble, but one that played off big-time for Gail Freedman the director and producer of Hot To Trot a totally enchanting look at the world of competitive same-sex ballroom dancing. Freedman selected…
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After Louie
Movies about the AIDS pandemic are always a tough call as fifty-something-year-old Sam (Alan Cumming) a NY artist who is working on a documentary about his friend William (David Drake) who died at the peak of the crisis finds out. Unable to move on with his own life since then he has become somewhat obsessed…
