Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesHot on the heels of Sam Feder’s excellent Netflix documentary DISCLOSURE comes breaking news about another investigation into the ‘plight’ of the trans community in the US. Feder’s film is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Whereas … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe story of the journey that transwoman Janae Marie Kroczaleski took to become her true identity is not only wonderfully uplifting but filmmaker Michael Del Monte’s affectionate documentary captures it all perfectly without any hint of sensationalism that usually accompanies stories like Janae’s. It all really starts back in In the summer of 2015 when former US … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDespite its setting of poverty and oppression there is a real sense of joy and elation in the lives of the Cuban drag queens captured in Transformistas (the local term for Drag) this new documentary. Cuba has always held conflicting and ambiguous views on homosexuality. Even though in 1981, the Ministry of Culture … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTransit Havana is an intriguing documentary from Dutch filmmaker Daniel Abma that is essentially a commentary on what it is like to be transgender in socialist Cuba especially now that is going through a state of flux since the Regime is lightening up after the US started making friendly overtures at last. Abma chooses … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn Transmilitary, first time feature documentary makers Gabe Silverman and Fiona Dawson’s excellent rational approach to the subject of transmen and women serving in US Armed Forces focuses on the one thing that transphobic politicians like to ignore i.e. facts. They started filming Transmilitary back in November 2014 and chose to focus on four … Continue reading
