queertiques
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Thylacine
A ‘thylacine’ was evidently the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times and is nearly extinct which is something an overly anxious Charlie doesn’t want his relationship with boyfriend Nick to become. They are just about to celebrate being together for 9 months when Peter spots Nick having lunch with one of his many admirers…
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Of Girls And Horses
Alex is a sullen rather troubled teenager who has been sent by her adoptive mother to work one summer as an intern on a remote farm in Northern Germany in the hope that this will help her resolve some of her internal struggles. She is taught by thirty-something-year-old Nina how to train horses with the…
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Stand
Opening with a quote from Nietzsche ‘there is also some madness in love, but there is is some reason in madness’ this timely narrative about how extreme homophobia is in Russia is a saddening tale about the price of being gay (and in love) in that country. Anton and his boyfriend Vlad are driving…
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Top Ten Cowboy Movies
Ever since Ang Lee’s earth-shatteringly beautiful ‘Brokeback Mountain’ we have had a thing about cowboys. Just as in that movie when Jack Twist says to Ennis ‘I wish I knew how to quit you’, we cannot stop yearning for a rugged man in spurs on horseback. Or in fact any type of Cowboys, including the ones…
