Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesQueer filmmaker Matt Wolf was born in 1982 a year after the first cases of AIDS were reported in the US. He may have been too young to remember the pandemic at its height, but his excellent new short documentary captures it so succinctly that it will stir up memories that some of us … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques“Cured” is a must-see. An award-winning documentary that takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBTQ+ equality: the very influential American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. Early US gay rights activist groups – such as the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe celebrated 78-year-old playwright TERRENCE MCNALLY has enjoyed such a packed life with his roller-coaster career and a love life that itself could be the stuff that dramas are made off, so it was a tough challenge for filmmaker JEFF KAUFMAN to squeeze it all into 90 so minutes the length of his new profile. The end result is an affectionate and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSome days if feels like the Lockdown has empowered people to create so many new online possibilities we may never want to leave our houses ever again. Today the Webby Award-nominated PBS Short Film Festival returns for a ninth year from Monday, July 13 – Friday, July 24 to all PBS and station digital platforms, including … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs the stories of King Charles III and his 2nd wife’s Coronation show no signs of abating we thought we’d share a fabulous one that is a figment of someone’s wild imagination (or is it?) A new film predicts the reign of King Charles will inspire a sex scandal, violent protests, and Princess … Continue reading