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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Broken Heart Land : a story about a culture of prejudice and bigotry which led to hope
This week sees the online screening of Broken Heart Land a powerful documentary essentially about LGBTQ Rights but is also very much about a culture of prejudice, bigotry and sheer hatred that still prevails in so many parts of our country. It is a portrait of a town divided along the right/left fault-line that…
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Alexis Gregory directs DECLAN written/starring Alistair Hall
One of the remarkable plus points of this wretched Lockdown is the innovative ways that artists, queer or otherwise, have used to bring us such an array of culture into our homes. Better still on a global basis like we have never seen before and so essential with the world being so fractured right…
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The Queens who all want to be Miss Continental
It’s a bit of mystery why it took several years for filmmaker Mark Saxenmeyer to get his documentary The Queens finally released. It’s a powerful story of a fascinating slice of queer history although it so poorly edited that it so often fails to do justice to all the ‘girls’ sharing their remarkable stories,…
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Present Still Perfect : a queer Thai love story
Only recently we shared the announcement that GagaOOLala the largest queer Asian streaming service has now gone global making it the first and only queer Asian video-on-demand service in the world . (https:// queerguru.com/the-first-global-queer-asian-video-on-demand-service-is-launched/) Now hot on the heels of that Queerguru has just received two movies from new-wave Thai filmmaker Aam Anusorn Soisa-ngim…
