queertiques
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The Fabulous Allan Carr
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz has added another subject to his series of documentaries on iconic LGBT figures which so far have included Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, Tab Hunter Confidential, I Am Divine, and Vito. This time his subject Allan Carr may be not quite so well known to the general public, but his successful career…
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Tom of Finland
As part of a compelling trend to document crucial parts of the history of the growth of the LGBT community comes this timely, and rather excellent, biopic on the life and work of one of the most influential and celebrated figures of twentieth century gay culture. Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang) was a middle-class Finnish Army Officer who…
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Crazy All These Years
When Ben’s (Christopher Howell) sister suddenly dies, he has to step up the plate and return home to take care of his bed-ridden mother. The moment he steps back inside the family home in some god-forsaken rural town that he left for the bright lights of N.Y. some 20 years ago, the reasons he was in…
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Laerte-se
Laerte Coutinho is an extraordinary person, who despite some initial reluctance at the beginning of this documentary, is very happy to share her continuing dialogue about what it means to her to be a woman. This 60-year-old extremely successful Brazilian artist and cartoonist was born a male, and at the age of 57 decided to…
