queertiques
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Queerguru reviews the World Premiere of CACTUS PEAR : a heartfelt journey of discovery in rural India
At its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the British Empire was the largest in history and, for a century, was the foremost global power. At its peak, they held sway over 412 million people, 23 percent of the world population at the time, and by 1920, it covered 35.5 million km…
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Queerguru reviews the World Premiere of HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY : how Chase Strangio is leading the fight against trans bans
Since the hate-spewing Trump was returned to the White House to begin his vicious campaign of revenge and retribution, the silence from the Democrats and the opposition has been deafening. It’s as if they all gave up collectively and rolled over to play dead. Thus, watching Sam Feder‘s excellent doc HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY at its…
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Boston’s Wicked Queer Film Festival celebrates 100 Years of QUEER GERMAN CINEMA
It seems almost impossible to believe to us ‘youngsters’ at Queerguru that German filmmakers have been making queer cinema for over a century now. Since the Weimer Republic, German cinema has played a leading role in the innovation of gay and lesbian cinema, with the tantalizing sexual illegibility and gender instability of German films…
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Queerguru reviews the World Premiere of SAUNA : where a cis gay man falls in love with a gay trans man
Sauna the debut feature film from Danish writer/director Mathias Broe carried a high expectation that this was such a new addition to the queer canon, yet it somehow lost its potential potency as its plot played out. This is the story of country boy Johan (Magnus Juhl Andersen) who has moved to Copenhagen where…
