Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Alexandra has just blown her last couple of dollars on buying Sin-Dee her best friend a pastry to celebrate her return after a 28 day stint in Jail. The mood quickly changes as these two transgendered prostitutes are dishing the dirty and Alexandra lets slip that Sin-Dee’s boyfriend/pimp Chester … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFrom 2008 comes this hybrid docudrama that does such a good melding fact with fiction we have no idea which is which. Somehow that doesn’t seem to matter. The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela is the story of 2O year old Filipino Ladyboy who makes a living as a sex worker in Manilla. Raquela … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe real reason that Dutch filmmaker Maria Peters’ movie The Conductor came on Queerguru’s radar in the first place is that the secondary plot line centers on a trans man refreshingly played by the talented trans actor Scott Turner Schofield, This biopic is the heavily dramatized take on the true story of Antonia Brico … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis may be a thoroughly British take on this very real groundbreaking story, but immediately from the first frame the screen is awash with these muted languid tones of Copenhagen in the first half of the last century, that there is no doubt of where this is all taking place. Einar and Gerda Wegener are … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis very affectionate profile on the actress/model April Ashley is long overdue as is evident in how her star quality simply shines through so bright on the screen.. April’s complicated roller-coaster life would have defeated any lesser person but since she somehow survived being born into a poor working-class Catholic family in 1935 in … Continue reading