We love GOOD queer news even more at present, with the sheer and dangerous madness created by The Orange Man. Last year, the Desperado LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Phoenix announced that they canceled the event “in direct response” to Trump’s executive order aimed at ending diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at publicly funded institutions. This would have been their 17th Edition. In their statement, the organisers said Continuing with the festival this year could risk the loss of all federal funding to the district, including student financial aid and grants that support hundreds of employees and critical student services. And so it begins! BUT NOW THEY ARE BACK.
It’s a packed two-day program of great queer movies, both feature-length and shorts. Queerguru’s top picks of must-see movies include Jeffrey McHale’s unmissable new doc ‘IT’S DOROTHY!’ As a long time Friend of Dorothy’s and a film buff to boot, I had assumed I knew all there was to know about Dorothy Gale, but this intoxicating new documentary film by Jeffrey McHale that premiered at Tribeca Festival proved me so very wrong. Judy Garland‘s portrayal in the 1939 classic Wizard of Oz film still makes her the iconic Dorothy of all time, but McHale does not just investigate the significance and deeper meaning of her role, but he also looks at all the subsequent interpretations of Frank Baum’s original book that was published in 1900.
The acclaimed documentary The Secret of Me, from director Grace Hughes-Hallett (producer of Three Identical Strangers). asks what would you do if you discovered everything your parents had told you was a lie? In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jim Ambrose, who until he was 20 years old was called Kristi and raised female. When he was born in 1976 with XY chromosomes and had atypical genital, his parents, under the advice of a local doctor, decided to have surgery performed on the infant to create more female-looking organs, and then raised him as a girl without ever telling him the truth. It wasn’t until he was 19 years old that he discovered the truth that he was intersex. Demanding to see his medical records, he was confronted with the devastating truth: as a newborn, doctors convinced his parents to raise him as a girl without his knowledge. Seeking out answers, Jim discovered the burgeoning American intersex rights movement and found community amongst queer activists in San Francisco.
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