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Fairy Tales for Lovers & Fighters
In a perfect world queerguru would jetting around the globe to a different film festival every week, and one very high on our priorities would be the Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival up in Calgary, Alberta. About to have its 19th Edition they strive to celebrate local and national queer artists and share diverse stories…
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Before The Fall : Pride and Prejudice revisited
It was probably inevitable that if queer filmmakers should want to adapt ‘the classics’ that they would start with romance first. And who better to begin with than Jane Austen herself. Newbie writer/director Byrum Geisler’s very spirited attempt at converting Pride and Prejudice into a modern day gay love story may have Miss Austen turning in…
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The End of Silence : the notorious gay trials of 1950’s Frankfurt
Just a few years before President Eisenhower kicked off the biggest LGBT witchhunt in the US’s history which became known as The Lavender Scare, over in Germany they were having their own gay persecutions too. Not long after the end of WW2 when Germany was trying to re-build itself, and the LGBT community was emerging once…
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Sweet Sixteen : A Transgender Story
It takes an amazing amount of courage for any person to start the journey to transition into their true gender, but it’s almost impossible to imagine how much harder it must be when you are a 15 year old and the only child of a farming couple in rural Wales. This is subject of a…
