QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Hearts Beat Loud
Frank (Nick Offerman) is a charming aging Brooklyn hippie has just two ambitions left in life, One is to hang on to the failing record store that he has owned in Red Hook for the past 17 tears, and the second is to make music with his freshman medical student Sam (Kiersey Clemons) who doesn’t quite share his enthusiasm. This…
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Boy Undone
Mexican filmmaker Leopoldo Laborde’s latest intriguing movie Boy Undone has been described as an excellent example of guerrilla filmmaking. This is the term used to describe very low budget filmmaking with skeleton crews, and simple props using whatever is available. Often scenes are shot quickly in real locations without any warning, and without obtaining…
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QUEER MOVIES @ P Town Film Fest
For the 20th Edition of Provincetown Film Society & Festival in June 2018, there are 14 eclectic feature-length QUEER MOVIES that cover a very wide spectrum and here, in alphabetical order, is QUEERGURU’S take on them all. 1985, A Kid Like Jake, Every Act of Life, The Gospel of Eureka, Hearts Beat Loud, Life…
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For black gay men in US the chances of contracting HIV are 1 in 2
The leading UK newspaper The Guardian has made a mini-documentary about what they call the hidden HIV epidemic in America. Reporter Leah Green went to Atlanta which has a very large black gay community and discovered that if you are a gay, black man in America today, your chances of contracting HIV are 1 in 2. That is in sharp contrast…
