queertiques
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KAWA
This is an old fashioned coming-out story in which a 40 year old married man and father of two finally accepts his sexuality but by trying so hard to please everyone, no-one ends up happy at all. Based on an autobiographical novel by acclaimed New Zealand novelist Witi Ihumaera (‘The Whale Rider’) that the author held back from…
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Italy, Love It Or Leave It
In 2009 I remembered being totally enamored with an irrepressible young Italian gay couple that documented the struggle of acceptance of gay rights in their Country and being totally horrified about the vitriol and power of the Far Right Political Parties that seem to make the American Evangelistic Conservatives seem like real sweethearts by comparison.…
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Queerguru reviews David Lambert’s Award winning “Beyond The Walls aka Hors Les Murs”
This unexpected and rather remarkable film from first time writer/director David Lambert realistically scrutinizes the intimate details of the rise and fall of an edgy gay relationship, devoid of stereotypes. It premiered at Cannes Film Festival during the Critics Week (picking up an Award) and most of the Reviewers then made a point of commenting that after…
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This Is What Love In Action Looks Like
1n 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. Later that same year ‘LOVE IN ACTION’ was founded by an evangelical Christian ministry specifically ‘to restore those trapped in sexual and relational sin through the power of Jesus Christ’ i.e. to forcible make gay men straight. As the oldest established ‘ex-gay’ organization in the US it…
