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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…
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Justin David: He’s Done Ever So Well For Himself
As part of QUEERGURU’S quest researching the hotbed of queer East London, we came across Justin David as he was just launching his debut novel with a title we would have loved for our own memoir HE’S DONE EVER SO WELL FOR HIMSELF. A self-proclaimed working-class queer writer Justin is also a photographer, publisher and full-time teacher. He’s…
