Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOn the morning of November 5th 2008 our euphoria over the election of Barak Obama as the first African/American President of the US was severely dampened when we learnt that voters in California had passed Proposition 8, albeit by a slim majority. Overnight they had taken away the legal right of same-sex marriages in the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe sub-title of Argentinian filmmaker Carina Sama’s first documentary movie is ‘diversity within diversity’ which aptly covers this close study of the lives of four transvestites and one transsexual in Bolivia today. Each of the five have made an extraordinary journey to reach the point of where they are now, and whilst most of have … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOne of the very first things you learn from this enchanting wee documentary is that when you are growing up gay in a Southern Baptist family in a small North Carolina town you worship both God and Dolly Parton in equal measure. Handsome identical twins Gary and Larry Lane, now in their mid 30’s, got … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen they answer the phone at John F Kennedy High School in Newark, they add the tag line ‘New Jersey’s Kept Secret’ and after watching Samantha Buck’s heartbreaking documentary you can understand why they so deserve to make this claim. You will also soon realise that most of the credit for the remarkable activities and achievements … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesGay porn mogul Michael Lucas and his co-director Yariv Moser start their documentary in dismissing some of the widely held misconceptions that people around the world have about Israel. That everyone rides around on camels, and secondly that the country is always at war. But in the next 45 minutes they quickly replace them with … Continue reading
