2019
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Tu Me Manques : one of the saddest coming-out stories ever
Bolivian filmmaker Rodrigo Bellott’s third feature is probably the saddest coming-out story that we have ever watched. It’s the tale of 20-something-year-old Gabriel (Jose Duran) who settles in NY as he felt he could never be the son that his ultra-religious family in Bolivia expected him to be. The story starts with the arrival…
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Synonyms : swapping your nationality is never easy
It is always so exhilarating to watch a powerful tour-de-force performance from a unknown actor that you know will become known as his breakthrough performance as stardom beckons. Such is the case of Israeli Tom Mercier who plays Yoav a conflicted young man who has just run away from Israel to Paris determined to…
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Juan & John’s Big Day Out at the Hollywood Museum
Queerguru’s ‘New Kids On The Block’ John G. & Juan Salas are our latest contributors who will be covering queermatters for us in L.A. No better place to start than The Hollywood Museum which amongst its permanent exhibits tet also currently have REAL TO REEL: PORTRAYALS AND PERCEPTIONS OF LGBTS IN HOLLYWOOD plus EVER AFTER… A POINTER SISTER COLLECTION…
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A Time For Ilhan : Screening at Emerson College, Boston
Boston: Bright Lights Film Series at Emerson College are having a special screening of TIME FOR ILHAN ; Norah Shapiro’‘s excellent award winning documentary on the truly remarkable US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar This story of the Somali/American woman who single-handedly is changing the face of politics in Minnesota for good, is one of those…
