2019
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Woke : how a closeted French Muslim”s coming out changed everyone”s lives
Sullivan Le Postec created the award-winning series, Woke for Studio 4, the French public broadcaster’s web fiction platform in 2017. Now available globally, it is the story of the melodramatic comings and goings of an LGBTQ Drop In Center in Lyons, which is suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of Hitcham (Mehdi Meskar)…
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So very gay , so very shallow (in a good way) and so very now
SNL alumni, former head writers openly gay Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider are the ones responsible for the Comedy Central sitcom THE OTHER TWO that everyone in the QUEERGURU Office is obsessed with. This hilariously funny TV show is about the older siblings of a 13-year-old internet celebrity . While Chase Dreams (Case Walker)…
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Over 80% of the actors at the casting for Jayro Bustamante’s film refused to play ‘gay’
When Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante‘s went to cast his sophomore film a drama about a married man who comes out as gay he was shocked to discover that over 80% of the actors at the casting would not play ‘gay’ . He needn’t have worried though as he chose the extremely talented actor JUAN PABLO…
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Tremors (aka Temblores )
For his sophomore film TREMORS, which is also the 2nd movie from Guatemala with an LGBTQ story line, the award-winning writer/director Jayro Bustamante was met with some resistance at the casting stage when over 80% of the local actors refused to play a gay man. He needn’t have worried though as he chose the…
