queertiques
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Glitterboys and Ganglands
This documentary was shot in 2010 but because the setting is the rather deprived Cape Flats area of Cape Town in South Africa, it has a very distinctly old fashioned feel to it. The area is populated by ‘Coloureds‘ a multi-racial ethnic group, and time has definitely stood still for the local populace, especially…
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Against The Law
There has been a wonderful plethora of LGBT films and TV programs to mark the 50th Anniversary of the partial decriminalization of homosexuality in the U.K. that have yet to make their way across the Pond. One has, however, and has just opened in the US and is currently playing the LGBT Film Festival…
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Behind The Curtain : Todrick Hall
When filmmaker Katherine Fairfax Wright was first offered the job to direct ‘Behind The Curtain’ a documentary on the You Tube musical vlogger Todrick Hall, she admitted that she had never heard of him. So too may many of the audience that get to watch her rather compelling film, but after 100 somewhat manic minutes…
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Woman On Fire
Brooke Guinan’s second-generation New York City firefighter father is a hero. He was one of the first responders who worked tirelessly at the site of the World Trade Center for weeks after 9/11. Brooke, a firefighter too, is also very much a heroine for a very different reason. She is the only openly-trans member of…
