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 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 queertiquesHardy Haberman is an author, filmmaker, educator, and designer and also a prominent figure in the leather/fetish/BDSM community. His short film Leather that he made in 1996 shines a light on the leather subculture. The film explores the semi-religious experience of bondage and discipline. For the film’s subjects, leather offers a way to build … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor his third feature film award-winning queer Hong Kong filmmaker Ray Yeung has another love story to tell, and as usual with him, its an unexpected heart-touching tale although this time it is between two seemingly unlikely gay men. Set in HK, its the story of a 70-year-old cab driver Pak (Tai-Bo) who is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesValentina is a very impressive feature film debut from Brazilian writer/director Cássio Pereira dos Santos that tells the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a transgender teenager. It starts with teenage Valentina (Thiessa Woinbackk) being unable to get into a night club with her friends because her official ID card still lists her with her male … Continue reading