queertiques

  • Life Most Wonderful

    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…

  • The Normal Heart

    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…

  • Breaking Through

    Breaking Through

    As the issue of same-sex marriage fills headlines almost daily since the Supreme Court struck down D.O.M.A. it may seem like gay rights are steam-rolling along.  It’s a nice thought but far from the truth in many parts of this country where being gay is still not accepted by the community, and can be the…

  • Truth

    Truth

    When middle-aged Jeremy turns up at the Coffee Shop for a first date with Caleb a young barista he met online he thinks he has hit the jackpot.  The boy is a hottie and a total charmer too, and before you can say ‘I’ll have a latte’ the two men are sitting on the couch holding…