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Writer/director BENJAMIN HOWARD talks about his beautiful coming-of-age film RILEY
RILEY is a beautiful coming-of-age tale set in contemporary, suburban Southern California. Based on writer/director BENJAMIN HOWARD‘s own experiences as a high-school athlete who’s not out yet, he has been able to draw on all those angst-ridden situations we face as closeted teenagers. This is writer/director’s debut feature and he talked with Queerguru on…
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Queerguru previews the World Premiere of MOFFIE an excellent South African harrowing coming-of-age drama
South Africa may now have a reputation as Africa’s most gay-friendly destination which attracts thousands of LGBT tourists annually, but it wasn’t always that way. When it was a British Colony as part of the British Empire they had the english sense of morality and Christianity imposed upon them. This meant mirroring England’s…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ALL THE FIRES a meditation on solitude, acceptance and overcoming fears while playing with fire.
Bruno (Sebastian Rojano) is a melancholic teenager living in Mexico City with his mother Inés (Ximena Ayala). From his bedroom he uploads home videos, chats with his friend Ian (Ari López) and with Daniela (Natalia Quiroz) an online acquaintance in Durango that he doesn’t know in person yet. Pyromaniac Bruno likes to make little fires with…
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FRANKIE FEST – A QUEER ROCK FESTIVAL HONORING THE LEGACY OF FRANKIE REX
Today The FMs announce the first-ever Frankie Fest – an annual queer rock festival honoring the legacy of Frankie Rex – taking place on May 11 at Coney Island USA. Frankie was an up-and-coming trans-masc singer and one-half of the alternative duo The FMs, died in 1922 aged 37. The…
