queertiques

  • Where are you going, Habibi?

    Where are you going, Habibi?

      Even though German/Turkish Ibo (Cem Alkan) has graduated with a good degree in business studies he simply cannot land a job.  He still lives at home with his conservative traditional parents and his younger sister in their small apartment in Berlin. He does some part-time work in a sex shop which he keeps a secret from…

  • Fair Haven

    Fair Haven

    19 year old James’s (Michael Grant) reward for his long stint at a gay conversion therapy course run by religious zealots is not good news.  On his return home he is greeted by his father (Tom Wopat)  who forced him to go there in the first place, and he immediately learns that all his college fund money has…

  • Forbidden : Undocumented & Queer in Rural America

    Forbidden : Undocumented & Queer in Rural America

    Moises Serrano is 24 years old.  He has lived in North Carolina for the past 22 1/2 years and is as American as apple pie. Except that he is not. His parents smuggled him and his two sisters across the Mexican border when he was just a baby, and he has been treated by the…

  • Call Me Marianna

    Call Me Marianna

    The first time we see forty-something year Polish Marianna is as she is heading to Court to sue her aged parents. It is evidently the only way that she can be allowed to go ahead with the sex realignment surgery which is the final part of her transitioning. After Marianne separated from her wife of…