coming out
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Moffie : Soldier stripped bare
At one point in this movie the lead character, Nicholas Van der Swar (Kai Luke Brummer) is warned “Try to stay invisible” but there is nowhere to hide as director Oliver Hermanus slowly and powerfully strips individuality and intimacy away from him. Conscripted at sixteen into the white supremacist army defending the apartheid of…
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Tu Me Manques : one of the saddest coming-out stories ever
Bolivian filmmaker Rodrigo Bellott’s third feature is probably the saddest coming-out story that we have ever watched. It’s the tale of 20-something-year-old Gabriel (Jose Duran) who settles in NY as he felt he could never be the son that his ultra-religious family in Bolivia expected him to be. The story starts with the arrival…
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The Zakar Twins : Coming Out in Four Words or Less
Identical gay twins Michael and Zach Zakar aho have become exemplary LGBTQI advocates have produced a rather fab new video called Coming Out: Four Words or Less. With the aid of friends who include Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon, YouTuber Arielle Scarcella and Pose actor Johnny Sibilly the video shows what it’s like for…
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Trade : a melodrama about accepting your real identity
The sophomore film from writer/director/producer Trae Briers is a story about how a casual meeting between two very different men turned into a melodrama that not one of them could have predicted. Michael (Austin Miller) is a highly successful corporate lawyer who lives in a luxurious villa on the beach in Malibu with Ashley (Tiffany…
