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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Style Icon and THE most fabulous Senior Patricia Fox on how to SLAY…..
When we become ‘seniors’, we so want to be a Patricia Fox. She is an Interior Decorator and Color Specialist who has the most inspired sense of personal style and soul that we would kill to have. Her keen eye and innate sense of style, coupled with years of interior decorating experience, magically transform a…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘FLESH AND FUEL (Du fioul dans les artéres)’ @ Cannes Festival Critics Week
A study on loneliness and longing the directorial debut of Pierre Le Gall Etienne (Alexis Manenti) is a French container truck driver, he moves through Europe in daily long shifts, his job is a demanding one; the truck is his shelter, too. Sometimes, he even cleans himself on board. By night, he stops at parking…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews 4K restores THE DEVIL QUEEN Brazilian film noir from 1974 by Antonio Carlos Fontoura.
Through kitschy opening credits, we are introduced to a House of Tolerance where matron Violeta (Yara Cortes) tells her girls to go out because Queen’s visitors are coming. ‘Queen’ is a homosexual drug dealer lord crime named Rainha Diaba (Milton Gonçalves), and the visitors are her associates, a diverse gang of armed men under…
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Filmmaker Amy Jenkins talks about ADAM’S APPLE an affectionate portrait of her trans son Adam
So many of us in the LGBTQ+ community have faced such disapproval and abandonment from our blood family when we ‘came out’ that we end up forming our own ‘chosen family.‘ It is therefore so very refreshing to learn about the families that support and embrace their queer children. Amy Jenkins is one such parent…
