It is no secret that lesbian bars and spaces in the US are rapidly disappearing. Back in 2020, Queerguru ran a review of The Lesbian Bar Project about there only being 15 left (see https://queerguru.com/15-lesbian-bars-left-in-the-us-join-the-fight-back/). With the progress of LGBTQ rights, visibility and safe spaces, and social life considerably shifted over onto … Continue reading
Set in 1856 this slow-burning drama is mostly as bleak as the wild Frontier it is set in. It opens with a throughly depressed Abigail (Katherine Waterson) reading aloud in voiceover . “This morning, ice in our bedroom for the first time all winter,” and you really feel the cold as she speaks. She … Continue reading
When 60-year-old Alice comes to Toronto six months after becoming a widow, her daughter Suzanne a lawyer is too busy at work to be home to greet her mother. She asks her unemployed friend Tru to step in at the last minute to look after Alice but then is shocked when she later arrives home … Continue reading
Frankly, we will admit that a TV program about sports is not something that usually gets a second look from the Queerguru Editorial team. However, Netflix’s new series of standalone documentaries called UNTOLD had one particular episode that caught our attention. Netflix promotes the series as taking a hard-hitting look at sports stories, and … Continue reading
Anna has just turned 40. She’s a chubby Cuban/American lesbian filmmaker, lonely, depressed and with more than a generous helping of self-pity that she loves to wallow in. At her birthday party to mark her entry into middle-age she wears a giant vagina costume which may get her the odd performing gig at a trendy … Continue reading