documentary
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The Generation That Fought Hardest To Come Out is Going Back In
Queer filmmaker Stu Maddux’s award winning film GEN SILENT about the plight facing many LGBTQ seniors is now 10 years old. That makes us all 10 years closer for all of us to have to personally confront the issues that his very moving documentary covered. Most of the seniors in the Film are LGBT…
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DISCLOSURE : Trans Lives On The Screen
Trans Filmmaker Sam Feder packs an awful lot of information into the 100 mins of this excellent new documentary Disclosure. Somehow he makes it totally compelling and not the least bit stuffy, and we were shocked to discover in fact how as gay men, we really knew so little about our brothers and sisters…
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PRIDELAND: Exploring LGBTQ+ Identity in the U.S. South
31-year-old Dyllón Burnside is an openly proud gay actor and singer who most people will know from his role as Ricky Evangelista, a dancer, in the FX television series Pose. Born in Pensacola, Florida, Burnside’s life journey changed after being fired as a Church Worship Minister because of his sexuality. Since then alongside his…
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HOMO-SAY-WHAT – a history of institutionalized homophobia
The very next day after queer filmmaker Craig Bettendorf and his crew celebrated Treading Yesterday’s world premiere at Dances with Films in Hollywood, the euphoria quickly disappeared. It was the night of the mass-killing at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando. The bitter irony (if that’s the right word) is that ‘Treading Yesterday’ Web Series…
