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Bitter Years : the life of Italian Gay Liberationist Mario Mieli

  Celebrated Italian queer theater and film director Andrea Adriatico’s latest movie is a biopic of Mario Mieli who was a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s.  Mieli may be little known outside of Italy but his fascinating colorful life that abruptly ended when he was just 30 years old, makes … Continue reading

Bittersweet Waters : Being in love & true to oneself in rural Mexico

  Chicago based Jesús Canchola Sánchez’s  hauntingly beautiful film is one of the most impressive  LGBTQ feature film debuts we have seen in a very long time.. Most of the credit goes to Sánchez who not only wrote and directed it, but he also produced  and starred in it too. As the title hints, this … Continue reading

Bizarre

Lest there be any doubt we should start by saying that his new movie from French director Etienne Faure truly deserves its title more than any other cutting edge movie released on the fringes that we have seen this year. It is actually taken after the name of the Brooklyn Cabaret Club that 18-year-old Maurice … Continue reading

Black Divaz

As part of the celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, NITV an Australian TV Channel commissioned filmmaker Adrian Russell Wills to make Black Divaz. This totally exhilarating hour-long documentary followed six rather fabulous indigenous Drag Queens as they assembled to take part in the very first Miss First Nations Drag Queen competition. This … Continue reading

Black Hats are The New Black

  You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy the thoroughly entertaining award-winning Israeli award winning series The New Black , but it does help. Set in an upscale Yeshiva in Jerusalem, the story is about four young ‘shababnicks’.  This we soon learn is a term for a young ultra-Orthodox person who leaves his or … Continue reading

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