Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor her fourth time in the director’s chair Venezuelan/American filmmaker Elia K. Schneider chose to tell a dramatized version of the controversial true-life story of the Law Professor who transitioned into Tamara Adrián and who would go on to become the first transgender person ever elected to Venezuela’s National Assembly. The movie version of the story … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis second documentary from Austrian filmmakers Katharina Lampert and Cordula Thym with its most prefect title, tells the story of several people who fit somewhere along the genderqueer spectrum, but most of them are still undecided exactly where they want to be right now on this sliding scale. All of them were born as women but have chosen to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor his new documentary “The Trans List” filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, along with writer and transgender rights activist Janet Mock, has assembled a diverse group of fascinating trans men and women to talk about how their own journeys have resulted in such joy and peace of mind. In her introduction before the interviews Janet Mock noted ‘These stories of triumph … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThere are two very distinct parts to Havana the capital of Cuba . One is the colorful picturesque area that has been freshly renovated and is where the tourists hang out, and the other is the seedy dilapidated streets where the local inhabitants struggle on a daily basis just to make ends. This story of … 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
