queertiques
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Handsome Devil
Writer/director John Butler’s enchanting coming-of-age movie about two very likable 16-year-old boys in an Irish Boarding School seems to sidestep some of the grittier aspects of homophobia to ensure that the end result is an engagingfeel-good movie that the LGBT community is bound to make it into one of the more popular hits of…
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BWOY
Brad (Anthony Rapp) is like many other lonely 40-year-old gay men looking for love via online dating sites, yet his past puts him in a more vulnerable state than most. Still grieving the recent accidental death of his only child has catapulted his desire to finally explore his sexuality. He practically ignores his wife as…
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Kings, Queens & In-Betweens
This very exuberant and enthralling documentary which portrays a rather charming hotch-potch troupe of drag performers is full of very pleasant surprises. Firstly that it is all set in the heart of the mid-west in Columbus Ohio, and secondly the arrange of talent is remarkably good, but most importantly, it is the exceptional sense of…
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Santa and Andrés : a heart-breaking queer Cuban tale
Cuban filmmaker Carlos Lechuga’s second feature film Santa and Andrés is a heart-breaking compelling tale set in a remote part of Cuba at the beginning of the 1980’s. Andrés (Eduardo Martinez) is an openly-gay subversive writer who has been exiled to his hillside hovel of a shack and forbidden to write anything more against the governing…
