queertiques
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The Guy With The Knife
As I was living in the UK in the 1990’s I had never heard of the case of Paul Broussard a 27 year old gay man in Houston Texas who was the fatal victim of a hate crime in the early hours of July 4th 1991, until I came across this excellent intriguing new documentary.…
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Coming Out
Unless you are gay or fit in somewhere along the queer spectrum you will never ever really be able to appreciate the traumas of coming out of the closet about your sexuality in this heteronormative world. There is simply no one way of doing this, and when young filmmaker Alden Peters decided it was…
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Boys On Film 15 : Time & Tied
There is a really fine art and skill into curating compendiums of short movies, and it’s one that the programmers at Peccadillo Pictures, a major UK distributor of LGBT cinema, actually seem to get better at with every new edition of their celebrated Boys On Film Series. Their latest one no 15 : Time &…
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All Yours
Belgian filmmaker David Lambert has followed up his stunning feature film debut the Cannes Award Winning ‘Beyond the Walls’ with another story of a very quirky and odd relationship. It’s the tale of an obese middle-aged gay baker called Henry (Jean-Michel Balthazar) who lives in a small Belgian town and who has fallen in love over the…
