queertiques
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Free Havana
The history of gay rights in Cuba is as best described as patchy. Although they repealed their Sodomy Laws in 1979 (26 years before the US did) homosexual acts were still a punishable crime until 1988. In 1992 the Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader made a very public statement ‘I am absolutely opposed to any form…
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Romeo Romeo
When New Yorker Lexy met the woman of her dreams she just wanted two things (apart from living happily ever after, naturally.) Lexy wanted to have a big white wedding and then have a baby. In this micro-budgeted wee fly-on-wall documentary from filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb we learn that Lexy and her wife Jessica celebrated their…
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The Ritz : one of the funniest gay screwball comedies ever
Gaetano Procio is in big trouble with his wife’s Mafia family, and scared for his life he jumps into a New York taxi and demands that the driver take him to the safest place that no-one would ever find him. He omits to tell Gaetano that The Ritz Baths are totally gay and what follows is a…
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Lilting
Junn is a rather disgruntled 60-something year old Chinese woman who has been co-oreced against her will into moving into a care facility for Seniors by Kai her son. The opening scenes of this wee British drama see the unhappy mother berating her only child for her present predicament which is exasperated by the fact…
