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THE BLACK CAT CINEMA SERIES : A Night of Queer Films at LOOK Cinema in Glendale. LA
Queerguru love to encourage/support anyone who goes out of their way to support the whole canon of queer cinema. Like THE BLACK CAT CINEMA SERIES in Glendale, LA , brings together great queer films, from crowd-pleaser classics to hidden gems to bold new voices in LGBTQ cinema who help foster a new community of film lovers and…
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Jeffrey Schwarz’s ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ : World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival
William Friedkin’s 1980 film CRUISING was….. and still is … the most controversial queer film ever made. It’s about a series of violent New York murders in which the victims all frequent clandestine Manhattan nightclubs in which gay men gather to dance, drink, and make pairings while enveloped in an S&M atmosphere of leather, boots,…
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When it comes to slashing LGBTQ+ rights are the US any better than Russia now?
Remember those not-so-long-ago days when the entire West considered Russia an authoritarian state that severely restricted personal freedoms? However, if you are a member of the LGBTQA+ community in the US nowadays, the differences regarding our liberties are decreasing daily. So much so that if you read some of the latest anti-gay pronouncements, you can…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘BLUE BOY TRIAL’ the heartfelt story of the landmark 1960’s Japanese trans rights court case
Queer life in 1960´s Japan isn’t mentioned very often, even though by the mid-1960s there were about fifty gay bars in Tokyo, albeit largely discreet and low profile. Tokyo´s current queer neighbourhood of Shinjuku Ni-Chome was already a thing by then. Trans lives were also becoming easier, in part due to the pioneering gender-affirming surgery…
