Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesHave you ever been in a heated conversation about the factions in our community? A conversation that has questioned why another letter has or has not been added to the LGBTQI+ acronym? This documentary directed by Ashley Joiner is an ambitious attempt to connect the dots, differences and intersections we live and love with. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPeccadillo Pictures a leading distributor of LGBT movies in the UK have just issued no 17 in their excellent series of Boys on Film collections of short movies. It is something that they really excel at, and in queerguru’s eyes these are by far the best anthologies of queer shorts that we have seen for … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesVoguing and the ballroom scene of Harlem have created cultural ripples through the decades and across continents. It has been appropriated, reassembled, packaged, sold and on many occasions sold out. Madonna was one of the first mainstream artists to acknowledge it in a very visible way but there are shards of its impact on … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis well-meaning documentary from Netflix takes a look at how the UK’s rapidly changing drag scene is surviving the Covid lockdowns. However, somewhere along it mixes its message so much and it eventually trails off into confusion. The film starts out acknowledging the hardworking local drag queens who have always been the mainstay of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesBrit filmmaker Daisy Asquith whisks us through 100 years of homosexuality in England in a tight 71 minutes in Queerama her latest documentary. Combining a real treasure trove of archival footage from extensive vaults of the British Film Institute, with clips from a whole range of LGBT feature films, plus more than a dabbing of vintage … Continue reading