Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s only natural that the more people complain that a film is greatly offensive, the more we get intrigued enough to want to see it. Even more so when the whiners are the ultra-conservative religious who are up in arms about a comedy satire group that put their spin on celebrating the Baby Jesus’s … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor those of us in the LGBTQ community in the US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIf Ferzan Özpetek is not Queerguru’s favorite queer Italian filmmaker, then he is definitely near the top of our list. This Turkish born Italian captured our attention with Hamam (Steam: The Turkish Baths) in 1997. He then when on to capture our hearts with his multi-award winning The Ignorant Fairies (released in the US/UK … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis dark and rather dismal coming of age tale is set South Africa’s central Free State province inhabited by Afrikaners made up of isolated farms where time seems to have stopped still. In fact it really is difficult to work out if this a period piece or not, and it is only the eventual … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLife seems to have taken a turn for the worse for this elderly Paraguayan lesbian couple who have been together for 30 years and always enjoyed a life of comfortable luxury. Now with Chiquita (Margarita Irun) the more worldly of the pair about to go off to jail after being charged with fraud, there is … Continue reading