Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s impossible to overstate the importance of a documentary like this nor the significance of women like Poly Styrene. Not that there were or are many women like her. She embodies all that was good and true about punk even as she transcends the label and reconfigures every stereotype, turning them all into ironic … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe have to confess that as Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s exhilarating 2000 film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, is one of our favorite queer documentaries of all time we approached the new film with the same title with such trepidation. Thankfully it turned out to be groundless as although this feature drama written … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe all need heroes and role models. Especially in the LGBTQ community. Most of the ones we have are very colorful and loud. However, there are some like Rik Weiland who are far from that. Yet this very quiet private man, who sadly took his own life in 2006, is probably the most important … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesQueer filmmaker Tim Wolff’s delightful documentary of the larger-than-life singer/activist Moshanty is quite the wee gem. It is not only an affectionate tribute to one of Papua New Guinea’s most famous citizens, but an insightful glimpse into how she is treated as a transgender in this fiercely conservative Christian country. Before we even meet … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Jamila Wignot’s new documentary of modern dance auteur, the tortured genius Alvin Ailey makes for such hypnotic viewing. With a combination of audio interviews with the man himself and some breathtaking archival footage of his early performances, she gives an intimate portrait of one of the greatest interpreters of the universality of the … Continue reading
