Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn this documentary that tells the story of the leading Argentinian LGBT activist Carlos Jáuregui, someone comments at one point ‘it’s important for our community to know where we have come from’ to which we would add, it is equally vital that we know who propelled us along the way too. Every LGBT community has a hero, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAt long last the BBC film Keith Haring: Street Art Boy , considered the definitive documentary on one of most influential queer artists of the last century, will premiere on PBS American Masters series. Haring’s pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Much of his work includes sexual … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFiona Clark Unafarid is an affectional profile of a rather eccentric photographer who is something of a queer icon in her native Aotearoa’s (New Zealand) that the rest of the world …….. particularly the LGBTQ+ one … should know about. Back in the 1970’s Clark captured images of the fringes of the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs this documentary starts to unfold, Bamby Salcedo explains why at the age of 50 she is about to have her own version of a quinceañera party. This is a Mexican traditional celebration that all girls have at the age of 15 to mark their coming of age and enter into womanhood. For … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDonna is a heart-warming documentary that follows trans activist, performer, and former Cockette, Donna Personna, as she learns, later in life, to live her most authentic trans life and to reconnect with her family as a woman. “This is who I want to be and who I want to show the world” Donna was … Continue reading