documentary
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Surviving the Silence : the lesbian Army Col. who was a silent Hero
Norwegian born Margarethe Cammermeyer who is a naturalised American, served as a Colonel in the Washington National Guard, In 1961 she had joined the Army Nurse Corps and over time received a B.S. in nursing and then she earned a master’s degree in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1991. With such impressive qualifications and…
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I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
As more and more transgender stories surface onto our screens, we realise that no two of them are ever the same. Some people’s transitioning journeys are so extremely unique that they not only challenge many of our perceptions, but also make us re-think gender-fludity yet again. Brian Belovitch’s story is one of those. Born…
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Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind : an HBO Doc
This new documentary about the three-time Oscar Nominated actress Natalie Wood has not only been sanctioned by her family but daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner acts as an adhoc host. Even so it still seems inevitable that any sort of biography of Wood is always dominated by her early tragic death and sadly at the…
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No Angel – A Life of Marlene Dietrich : a legendary Queer Icon
In 1999 American Film Institute named Marlene Dietrich as the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. We think if we polled gay men (of a certain age) for Legendary Queer Icons in Gay History, Dietrich would rate much higher than that . For those of you reading this who have never heard of…
