queertiques
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Holiday aka Feriado
They immediately take off in a hurry to be followed in hot pursuit by Uncle Jorge and his thuggish bodyguards and when they catch up to them, they beat one of them to a pulp. Juampi though helps the other one escape and he jumps on the back of the man’s motorbike as he speeds…
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Kidnapped For Christ
This is a sadly very true tale about how American parents are willingly to shell out some $72000 per year (that’s $10000 more than Harvard’s fees) to have their children forcibly detained by fundamental Christian Evangelists at a ‘camp’ in a remote part of the Dominican Republic to undertake treatment euphemistically called behavior modification. The…
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Life Most Wonderful
When watching Bulgarian filmmaker Svetoslav Draganov’s new documentary about the three Liliev brothers unfold, you can be forgiven in thinking at first that there is possibly more than a touch or irony in the title of his film. The brothers share their surname, but that’s where the similarity ends. Their mother died a few years…
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The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer is perpetually angry. This prominent loud-mouthed writer and gay activist has been shouting out his highly personal take on some of life’s iniquities and in-equalities for the past 40 years and has made himself famously unpopular. It was his exasperation with the apathy of the gay community when the AIDS scare first started…
