documentary
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New PBS Doc ‘THE WAR ON DISCO’ investigates the late 1970s when angry homophobes and racists tried to stop the music….
For most of us (of a certain age) our passion for everything disco peaked in 1977 with John Travolta’s swagger in the opening scenes of Saturday Night Fever. The film resulted in the Best Actor Oscar Nomination for Travolta but for the rest of the world, it shepherded in a whole new movement…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY : Paul Preciado’s homage to trans/non binary lives
Orlando, My Political Biography is a fantastic, award-winning documentary film by Spanish philosopher/director Paul Preciado. The documentary is a homage to trans/non-binary lives and Virginia Woolf’s classic 1928 novel, Orlando, A Biography. The original novel is based on the wild family history of Woolf’s lover, the aristocratic poet and novelist, Vita Sackville-West. The…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews MY MASSIVE COCK on Channel 4
Do you fancy having an extra-large penis? According to research, 45% of people with penises wish they had a larger one. Channel 4’s new documentary, My Massive Cock, discusses the issues with having a very large penis. The programme is part of Channel Four’s Truth or Dare series, celebrating the Channel’s 40th anniversary, daring…
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Queerguru reviews “Casa Susanna” the 1950s/60s/Catskills resort discreet refuge for cross-dressing men and transgender women.
The award-winning queer filmmaker Sebastien Lifshitz, whose day job is as a Professor at La Fémis the film and television school of PSL Research University new film CASA SUZANNA is his third documentary with transgenderism as the subject matter. Bambi, his spell-binding story Marie-Pierre Pruvot, an Algerian, born trans woman who had a long and…
