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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews 4K restores THE DEVIL QUEEN Brazilian film noir from 1974 by Antonio Carlos Fontoura.
Through kitschy opening credits, we are introduced to a House of Tolerance where matron Violeta (Yara Cortes) tells her girls to go out because Queen’s visitors are coming. ‘Queen’ is a homosexual drug dealer lord crime named Rainha Diaba (Milton Gonçalves), and the visitors are her associates, a diverse gang of armed men under…
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Filmmaker Amy Jenkins talks about ADAM’S APPLE an affectionate portrait of her trans son Adam
So many of us in the LGBTQ+ community have faced such disapproval and abandonment from our blood family when we ‘came out’ that we end up forming our own ‘chosen family.‘ It is therefore so very refreshing to learn about the families that support and embrace their queer children. Amy Jenkins is one such parent…
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FREE copy of Charlie David’s blissfully funny new novel ‘BLESS THIS HOUSE’ for ALL QUEERGURU readers
Queerguru has known CHARLIE DAVID for some 20 years now since he starred in Dante’s Cove a queer supernatural soap opera, which was such a major hit when it aired on Here TV from October 7, 2005, through December 21, 2007. There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then. This Canadian actor…
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Filmmaker Matthew Puccini talks with QUEERGURU about his new award-winning film CALLBACK
We first met filmmaker Matthew Puccini back in 2019, just after his third short film, Lavender, had premiered at Sundance and had won the Vimeo Award for Best US Short Fiction. Now he was back at Provincetown International Film Festival with his latest movie, CALLBACK, the compelling tale of a couple of gay actors dealing…
