Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSince 1996 when East Palace, West Palace was the first Mainland Chinese movie with an explicitly homosexual theme was released, there have been very few films to follow its lead. Like with MONEYBOYS it is deemed too unsafe to make Chinese queer film actually in situ, so filmmakers such as Taiwan/Austrian C.B. Yi use … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Goran Stolevski’s sophomore feature film OF AN AGE premiered at Melbourne’s Queer Film Fest this summer, it received a rapturous reception. The Guardian Newspaper was quick to declare this Australian film a modern queer classic. Now come next Valentine’s Day we will be able to see for ourselves when Focus Features releases the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSeems like summer 2022 is going to be quite a season of entertaining queer rom-coms. This is not a complaint just an observation and if the latest one My Fake Boyfriend is as cute as it appears on the trailer below, then count us in. Andrew (Kelyman Lonsdale from ‘Love Simon‘) just can’t stay … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesNetflix’s new winning queer TV series Heartstopper is another confirmation that the network has become such an important source of LGBTQ programming. They are one of the very few that grasp the sheer importance of creating content in which our community feels understood, acknowledged, and respected unlike the sheer number of corporations that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt was quite a departure for Queerguru when we recently interviewed Charles Upchurch, a Professor in British History at Florida State University about his latest book:“Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain. It was the first time we had considered queer history that pre-dated WW2. However, we have … Continue reading