2021
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Queerguru’s Curated Curios …….. and News 4/24
Rev. Raymond Broshears was a gay preacher from Illinois who moved to San Francisco in 1965. It was there, after being beaten by a group of teenagers, that he decided to protect his community. He formed the Lavender Panthers, a group of armed gay activists on the prowl for would-be gay bashers. Read MORE …
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Andrew Hebden reviews the urine trouble in Agnieszka Holland’s CHARLATAN
Agnieszka Holland’s biographical tale of a Czech herbal expert who makes a living diagnosing patients by their urine samples may not exactly be everyone’s cup of pee at first. However barely submerged within it is a commentary on the suffocating totalitarian regime it happens under and a pointed statement that supposedly absurd practices supported by…
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Poppy Field : a rare queer drama from Romania
The fact that this film ever got made is a real achievement in itself is something of miracle/breakthrough. To our knowledge, this is only the 2nd queer movie to come out of Romania. The first was Beyond The Hills, which when we reviewed it in 2013, we found overwhelmingly bleak. Poppy Field, the debut…
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George Towne : seductive queer art at NY’s National Art Club
After talking with filmmaker Chris McKim about his new doc on David Wojnarowicz one of the greatest queer artists in 1980/1990’s, it seemed serendipitous that we also hear from George Towne about his new Exhibit. Like Wojnarowicz, Towne has made NY ‘s East Village his home and has firmly established himself as part…
