queertiques
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I Am Not Your Negro
When the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself. This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted directly…
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The Happys
When you are young and in love sometimes its hard to see the wood for the trees. In this particular case when 21 year old Tracy (Amanda Bauer) comes home unexpectedly the wood she sees is on her movie star boyfriend Mark (Jack DePew) who is naked and making out with another man in their…
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What”s The Matter With Gerald?
Openly gay filmmaker Matt Riddlehoover’s portfolio that includes seven feature films and a couple of shorts are all good examples of boy-lite cinema. They are quirky, funny, easy on the eye stories of contemporary gay men just trying to get their act together. The latest one in this vein reunites writer/director/producer, and sometime actor, Riddlehoover…
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Outings
This new Brit LGBT edgy TV series that went straight to DVD that tackles the life of group of friends in the northern UK town of Manchester is worlds away from HBO’s LGBT series Loving set in San Francisco featuring a group of rather sophisticated urbanites. Outings bills itself as a cross between as Queer as…
