Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSince we started QUEERGURU in 2015 there has been a very significant increase in the number of films made about the transgender/gender-queer community. They are not only very informative and entertaining but each of them makes their own significant contribution to the continuing dialogue about LGBTQ communities as a whole. We need these … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAcademy Award acting nominee and the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of Time, Elliot Page is one of the creative forces behind AN AVOCADO PIT that has been shortlisted for a 2024 Academy® Award. The filmmaker Ary Zara is the first trans person to be considered for the Oscars’ Live … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOver the next three days the third annual Panorama Film Festival, featuring 19 films by an international array of queer and trans filmmakers under 30 is happening at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Mass. Created by Queer Videography, the Panorama festival offers a home for the next generation of queer cinema and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMonica is an intense, touching drama about end-of-life family reconciliation. Monica (Trace Lysette) is a glamorous thirty-something, red convertible car-driving, long auburn-haired woman living in California, having left her rural mid-Western roots behind. She works as a masseuse and an online sex worker. She’s cool and guarded, and lives a fairly singular … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Luchina Fisher’s couldn’t have timed the release of her excellent new Netflix documentary “The Dads” any better. Currently, with such rabid anti-trans rhetoric from right-wing conservatives getting such dangerous traction in the media, it’s refreshing to get this view from some heartfelt acceptance of transgender youth. Fisher’s film is of five fathers of … Continue reading
