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Queerguru reviews the World Premiere of HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY : how Chase Strangio is leading the fight against trans bans
Since the hate-spewing Trump was returned to the White House to begin his vicious campaign of revenge and retribution, the silence from the Democrats and the opposition has been deafening. It’s as if they all gave up collectively and rolled over to play dead. Thus, watching Sam Feder‘s excellent doc HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY at its…
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Boston’s Wicked Queer Film Festival celebrates 100 Years of QUEER GERMAN CINEMA
It seems almost impossible to believe to us ‘youngsters’ at Queerguru that German filmmakers have been making queer cinema for over a century now. Since the Weimer Republic, German cinema has played a leading role in the innovation of gay and lesbian cinema, with the tantalizing sexual illegibility and gender instability of German films…
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FIST CLUB : Wrestling BUT Gayer …..
Today is the start of LGBTQ History Month in the UK (for some unknown reason it’s October in the US) so we started looking at new ways to celebrate the occasion. That’s how we came across FIST CLUB a London-based queer cabaret and pro wrestling night which is a dynamite mash-up of fantastical comedy,…
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Queerguru reviews the World Premiere of SAUNA : where a cis gay man falls in love with a gay trans man
Sauna the debut feature film from Danish writer/director Mathias Broe carried a high expectation that this was such a new addition to the queer canon, yet it somehow lost its potential potency as its plot played out. This is the story of country boy Johan (Magnus Juhl Andersen) who has moved to Copenhagen where…
