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Moneyboys : a powerful queer Chinese story of love, survival and acceptance
Since 1996 when East Palace, West Palace was the first Mainland Chinese movie with an explicitly homosexual theme was released, there have been very few films to follow its lead. Like with MONEYBOYS it is deemed too unsafe to make Chinese queer film actually in situ, so filmmakers such as Taiwan/Austrian C.B. Yi use…
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Phyllis Christopher : In Pictures: Lesbian Sex and Protest in 1990s San Francisco
Currently at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, in the NE corner of the UK is a stunning retrospective of the work of Phyllis Christopher. Titled CONTACTS it is an intimate glimpse at the lesbian community in San Francisco in the ‘90s Phyllis Christopher is an American photojournalist living and working in Gateshead.…
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KITZ: a bunch of rich glamorous snow-bound kids in a Reality TV series that you will either love ….or hate.
All those Reality TV shows that are all sparkle and no substance have so much to answer for. Now German TV has jumped into the act with a scripted drama series called KITZ set in the real-life Austrian ski resort town of Kitzbühel, It is all about sex on the ski slopes: gay, straight …
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BRINGING HIM BACK a new queer Spanish psycho-drama streaming online
Bringing Him Back is an intense yet gentle psycho-drama about family, set in the Spanish countryside outside Barcelona. Following his mother’s death, Moi (Ricardo Gomez) travels with his boyfriend, post-grad student Biel (Eneko Sagardoy), back to his mother’s rural house. His sister Mia (Bruna Cusi) has already returned to the house and the three…
