queertiques
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Kept Boy
Chicago based openly gay writer Robert Rodi had a string of very successful hits with his highly enjoyable fluffy gay novels in the 1990’s which included such titles as Fag Hag, and Closet Case. One of them, Kept Boy, has now been made into a full-length feature film and like the sugar-daddy protagonist in the…
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Summertime
Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino is back on his home turf after a stint in Hollywood where, amongst other things, he directed two Will Smith movies. His new movie is the story of two Italian teenagers and although Muccino, in a story he co-wrote with Dale Nall, briefly starts their tale in Rome, he moves the action to the…
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Varichina-the true story of the fake life of Lorenzo de Santis
In the 1970’s Lorenzo de Santis was ‘the only gay in the village’ in Bari an economical depressed port town in Southern Italy. Well, he was the only known homosexual at that time, and by all accounts he was so openly flamboyant that he probably made up for the rest of them still hidden in…
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No Dress Code Required
Probably the one thing that most irked all the local Mexican authorities who schemed to deny Victor and Fernando the right to marry, was not just because they were gay but that this totally adorable and resilient couple were so obviously two best friends who were madly in love with each other. They evidently believed that…
