coming out
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Dating Amber : and pretending to be straight
Out-gay filmmaker David Freyne returns to his native Kildare in Ireland for the his latest film a delightful coming-out comedy that has a more than a passing reference to his own story . Set in 1995 a period Freyne comments was a time when so many films about being gay focused on people dying…
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Queerguru @ BFI Flare : DRAMARAMA
Queer writer/director Jonathan Wysocki’s debut feature film is based on his own high school days where a bunch of geeky best friends prefer to play dress-up drama than actually deal with the reality of their own lives It all takes place in Escondido California back in 1994 and as the summer has ended it…
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MINYAN: Coming Out Gay and Jewish
When queer documentarian Eric Steel adapted David Bezmozgis ‘s short story MINYAN into his first feature film the narrative became much more personal. Like the protagonist David (Samuel H. Levine) ., Steel grew up in a New York Jewish family in the 1980’s when being gay in the midst of an AIDS pandemic was…
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In the Family : what happened when a gay man was outed by his teacher
Some days if feels like the Lockdown has empowered people to create so many new online possibilities we may never want to leave our houses ever again. Today the Webby Award-nominated PBS Short Film Festival returns for a ninth year from Monday, July 13 – Friday, July 24 to all PBS and station digital platforms, including…
