“Cured” is a must-see. An award-winning documentary that takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBTQ+ equality: the very influential American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. Early US gay rights activist groups – such as the … Continue reading
Ron Davis’s fascinating documentary on Dawn Langley Simmons plays out like a hard-to-believe fictional story surrounded by an air of utter sadness. Although we get a distinct impression that although Dawn herself may have agreed her life was tough, she would with an air of bravado and fortitude definitely describe it as being … Continue reading
This new documentary having its World Premiere at Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival sets about exploring the rather blurred lines of gender and sexuality of a rather extraordinary London based Malayan Chinese actor/producer called Chowee Leow aka Zoe who is a self-professed gender-illusionist. Initially listening to interviews with Lee and friends was somewhat confusingly as no-one … Continue reading
Voguing and the ballroom scene of Harlem have created cultural ripples through the decades and across continents. It has been appropriated, reassembled, packaged, sold and on many occasions sold out. Madonna was one of the first mainstream artists to acknowledge it in a very visible way but there are shards of its impact on … Continue reading
When filmmaker Derek Hallquist started his documentary Denial it focused on his father David the CEO of Vermont Electric Corp and his impassioned views on climate change and transitioning the industry to adequately deal with an ever changing world. Hallquist Snr was so committed to renewable energy and converting the Grid to sources of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques
