queertiques
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Uncle Gloria : One Helluva Ride
Some people wait an awful long time before they start to come to terms with the fact there were born with the wrong gender, or indeed have the wherewithal to deal with it. Gloria Stein is one such person as she waited until she was 66 years old until she transitioned. In this slightly stranger-than-fiction…
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Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
Pee-wee Herman is back on the big screen at last, and to all accounts nothing much has changed at all, and even though everyone still calls him a boy, he is actually now 63 years old. Well, Paul Reubens is … Pee-wee just doesn’t age. In this brand new movie, produced Judd Apatow (The 40Year Virgin) ,…
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Departure
Beatrice (Juliet Stevenson) and her 15 year old son Elliot (Alex Lawther) have arrived at their family’s getaway vacation home in the South of France for one last time. As the house is now to be sold as Beatrice and her husband are finally getting a divorce, they are there to pack up all its contents.…
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Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures
The prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato start this latest documentary of theirs on the celebrated and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 with the scene of the right wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms angrily pleading with the Senate to stop the public funding of the latest Mapplethorpe Exhibition. The fact it didn’t actually receive any monies…
