queertiques
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A Million Happy Nows
This is a one of those rather glorious no-holds-barred weepy melodramas that Hollywood would have termed as a ‘women’s picture’ in the good old days. It still is in a sense, but for entirely different reasons. This time the romantic pair at the centre of this rather wonderful sad tale are lesbians. It is the…
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B&B
. When married gay couple Marc (Tom Bateman) and Fred (Sean Teale) travel from London to a remote B &B in Wales for the weekend, their prime purpose is to taunt Josh (Paul McGann)t he homophobic owner. The year before he had refused to allocate the couple a room with a double bed, so they successfully…
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Prom King, 2010
Charlie (Christopher Schaap) was definitely born in the wrong decade. He is a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding the big love of his love with violins soaring in the background just like in the best old-fashioned Hollywood movies. Instead he is very unhappy about having to look for it in all the wrong places…
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Free CeCe
With the sad news this week about the death of Alphonza Watson in Baltimore which brought the number of transgender women of color in the US killed in the first three months up to 8 now, the story of CeCe McDonald takes on an even greater significance. A compelling new documentary from Jacqueline Gares doesn’t just…
