queertiques
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To celebrate National Cowboy Day, Queerguru reviews “Queens & Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo,”
This coming Saturday, July 26th, is National Day of the Cowboy, which is a day to honor the contributions of cowboys and cowgirls to American history and culture. Including gay ones, we hope. We thought we would mark the day by reviewing “Queens & Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo,” a documentary from…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘BABY’ a new queer drama from Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Caetano
This Brazilian film directed by Marcelo Caetano tells the story of 18-year-old Wellington (Joao Pedro Mariano), in search of his family and in need of a signature to be released from the Youth Detention Center where he has been held for the last two years. The streets of São Paulo are a picture-perfect scenario where Wellington…
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NAME OF THE GAME tracks the rise and fall of male exotic dancing in the US
Are we being naive? But we always thought that male strippers only performed for male/queer audiences. According to the new movie, NAME OF THE GAME, that is about to be released, we have it all wrong. The Chippendales and Magic Mike have a lot to answer for in the wake of their major successes; as…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews UNDERGROUND ORANGE (BAJO NARANJA) a film by Michael Taylor Jackson
A blond blue blue-eyed young man walks by the river with the breathtaking Buenos Aires skyline at dawn, drinking mate. Immediately afterwards, he walks by a cemetery searching for the tomb of Hipolito Bouchard to whom he brings a souvenir from the California Republic… this is the pretext for his visit and a fascinating tale in the South. …
