documentary
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews LAST DANCE : the story of the iconic drag queen Lady Vinsantos
THE ART OF DRAG, AN Education FOR LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN Vinsantos Defonte and Gregory Gajus star in this documentary that introduces the viewer into the mind of Vinsantos and his New Orleans Drag Workshop, an institution devoted to freedom of expression that provides a career to its graduates and is based…
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White Hot : The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie and Fitch with their preppy clothing had fallen off my radar some years ago, and it wasn’t until I watched Alison Klayman’s intriguing new doc WHITE HOT that I knew their stores were still trading. Klayman traces the rise and fall of the brand which in the 1990s to 2000s was the biggest…
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How To Survive A Pandemic
Oscar-nominated queer writer/filmmaker DAVID FRANCE (“How to Survive a Plague“, “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” and “Welcome to Chechnya” has just released his new doc “How to Survive a Pandemic“. It’s a sort of semi-sequel to his very first film but this time instead of AIDS France has turned his…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews ‘PAT ROCCO DARED’ the story of the legendary queer filmmaker and activist
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR, YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE… Canadian filmmaker Charlie David has been exploring the LBBTQI2S experience and reveals to us Pat Rocco (1934-2018) who lived in those days when police made raids against the ‘notorious’ members of the queer community in the United States of America and when the act of…
