Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor Throwback Thursday Queerguru checks out the first short made by queer filmmaker Mark Christopher best known for as the writing/director of ’54’ and the subsequent ‘54 The Directors Cut. Christopher was 29 years old in 1992 when he wrote and directed Dead Boys Club. It is the story of Toby an innocent young man … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe just came across this sweet rom-com short movie from 2018 that reminds us that even in this day and age queer men are still ridiculed from within the community for embracing their feminine side too much. We kind of expect pseudo macho straight guys still to be overtly hostile as that is their … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAt one point in this movie the lead character, Nicholas Van der Swar (Kai Luke Brummer) is warned “Try to stay invisible” but there is nowhere to hide as director Oliver Hermanus slowly and powerfully strips individuality and intimacy away from him. Conscripted at sixteen into the white supremacist army defending the apartheid of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFrom 2001 comes this queer tale from French filmmaker Rémi Lange about an Arab sociology student at the Sorbonne in Paris who decides to make a documentary about homosexuality as his class project. Karim (Karim Tarek) lives in the small top floor apartment with his girlfriend Sihem (Sihem Benamoune). She thinks butter melts in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSullivan Le Postec created the award-winning series, Woke for Studio 4, the French public broadcaster’s web fiction platform in 2017. Now available globally, it is the story of the melodramatic comings and goings of an LGBTQ Drop In Center in Lyons, which is suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of Hitcham (Mehdi Meskar) … Continue reading
