Canada
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Queergruru’s Jose Mayorga reviews Summer Qamp a camp in rural Alberta, queer, non-binary, trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space.
IT IS NO EASY JOURNEY BEING GAY Directed by Jen Markowitz with the support of Canada Media Fund, the documentary is a celebration of queerness in film that takes place on territories in South Alberta, where mother nature reigns. For the participants, the Summer activity is a memory for the rest of their lives. The…
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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
If you love pulp fiction …. especially the lesbian kind …. then you’ll want to see this documentary full of titillating tales of taboo lovers. that has been digitally remistressed In the 1950s, a wave of lesbian pulp literature emerged, exploring a then taboo subject in vivid, sensationalistic detail. While these writers often…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WILDHOOD a beautiful ‘two-spirit’ coming of age story
Wildhood is a beautiful queer coming of age story set within Canada’s first nation Mi’kmaq people, a community over 14,000 years old, based in rural Nova Scotia. The road movie introduces us to Link, (Phillip Lewitski), a Two-Spirit, half Mi’kmaq teenager, and his younger half-brother Travis (Avery Winters-Anthony). The term Two-Spirit loosely refers to…
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The Fruit Machine : how Canada persecuted the LGBT community in the past
For those of us in the LGBTQ community in the US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay. …
