2021
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews NORTH BY CURRENT an excellent doc about family reconciliation on PBS
North by Current is a documentary about family reconciliation and premiered very successfully at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. After the inconclusive death of his young niece Kalla, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown during the bleak winter of 2015. He was originally preparing to make a film about a…
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Will we still Love Lucy after watching Aaron Sorkin’s Biopic?
Academy Award-winning writer/director Aaron Sorkin well known for his time for West Wing (of the White House) has now moved in to the Ricardos house. The home of Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz. His highly anticipated new movie Being The Ricardos is about a time when not everyone loved Lucy. They are…
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The Butch Monologues, Last Stand
The Butch Monologues are a powerful and often humorous collection of secret stories exploring sexuality, vulnerability, and desire taken from interviews with butches, masculine women and transmen, living worldwide. Originally a London-based group of butches, transmen and gender rebels brought together in friendship and solidarity have been touring the globe since 2015 with this…
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Operation Hyacinth : a Polish queer thriller with a real kick
It seems like so many countries have undergone a dark period in their history when they undertook merciless witch-hunts against the LGBTQ population. In the US it started in 1953 under Eisenhower, and what became known as The Lavendar Scare lasted some four decades. In that period thousands of people lost their livelihoods and…
