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Mankind : escaping to a new (gay) life on Mars
A sci-fi queer film is at best a rarity. Maybe filmmakers still think that there are enough earthly issues that the LGBTQ community are still connecting with before we take flight. Mankind, an immaculate and compelling short directed and co-written by Brit Layke Anderson, is about Will (Ricky Nixon) a restless young man who…
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Dan Hunt talks about the award winning doc LITTLE MISS WESTIE
Dan Hunt the co-director of Little Miss Westie Documentary that tells the story of a Connecticut family where both children are transgender talked to Queerguru about his movie which just screened at OUTshine Film Festival where it won the Jury Award for Best Documentary
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Becoming Leslie : the story of the crossdresser who really succeeded in Keeping Austin Weird
Leslie Cochrane was something of an acquired taste. He was a very loud middle-aged scantily clad cross-dressing homeless man who was the self-styled leader of a movement called Keep Austin Weird. In his intriguing new documentary from Tracey Frazier we don’t initially know he ended up in this conservative Texas city that he proclaimed was…
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For the very first time Tribeca Film Fest celebrates PRIDE
This year the Tribeca Film Festival for the very first time ever will celebrate Pride on Saturday May 4th and headlining all the festivities with the Queen herself, Lady Bunny. They are screening the world premiere of the HBO doc WIG by Chris Moukarbel (Banksy Does New York) which shows the history of the…
