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The Strong Ones : a powerful queer Chilean love story
For his debut feature film Chilean writer/director Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo adapted his own short film San Cristabel which won the prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlinale in 2015. It is a beautifully executed queer love story that is a near perfect as it could be. Lucas (Samuel González) has just won a scholarship to…
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Valentina : a (happy) trans coming out story
Valentina is a very impressive feature film debut from Brazilian writer/director Cássio Pereira dos Santos that tells the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a transgender teenager. It starts with teenage Valentina (Thiessa Woinbackk) being unable to get into a night club with her friends because her official ID card still lists her with her male…
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See Each Other. Save Trans Lives
‘ The Human Rights Campaign believes that 2020 is likely to become the deadliest year for violence against trans and gender non-conforming people since HRC began collecting data in 2013. Already at least 27 trans and gender non-conforming people were violently killed so far this year. So they have have teamed up with WarnerMedia for…
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Should THE BOYS IN THE BAND be playing a different tune now?
The much heralded movie adaption of the 2018 Broadway revival of Mart Crowley’s gay classic drama THE BOYS IN THE BAND has finally. arrived Helmed by the uber queer Producer Ryan Murphy who has a passion for period dramas, the movie has that highly polished look that we now expect from him on all…
