documentary
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The Queen of Thursdays
This fascinating documentary with its intriguing title is the bitter-sweet story of Rosario “Charin” Suárez a Cuban ballerina hailed by many as the best of her generation. Her tale starts when Fidel Castro first came to power in 1959 and he invited Alicia Alonso the country’s leading prima ballerina and her husband Fernando to establish…
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FTWTF : Female To What The Fuck
This second documentary from Austrian filmmakers Katharina Lampert and Cordula Thym with its most prefect title, tells the story of several people who fit somewhere along the genderqueer spectrum, but most of them are still undecided exactly where they want to be right now on this sliding scale. All of them were born as women but have chosen to…
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Even with the major advances that the LGBT community has made in the past few decades it is still not blessed with an over-abundance of its own heroes/role models. It therefore comes as no surprise that when one rises up and is blessed with an incredible innate talent to articulate how many of us feel, and…
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Alive and Kicking
In our present day culture when our eyes are more likely to be glued to our cellphone screens rather than each other, it’s particularly refreshing to come across new-found excitement for a craze that is sweeping the globe which demands that we are set aside our personal tech gadgets and get fully immersed with our…
