documentary
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STEELERS: The World’s First Gay Rugby Club
Australian television news reporter, Eammon Ashton-Atkinson had originally moved to the UK to escape depression. What he found was both love with his future husband and an opportunity to indulge in his favorite passion of playing rugby. He joined the Kings Cross Steelers in London, the World’s first ever all-gay rugby team and this…
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Welcome to Chechnya : the story behind the purge to exterminate all LGBTQ people
The former Newsweek investigative journalist turned filmmaker David France’s third documentary is one of the most harrowing depictions of contemporary LGBTQ life that we will ever have to sit through. Fortunately France and his team are skilled enough to tell the stories with such heartfelt compassion that we don’t just feel like voyeurs but…
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The Booksellers : a glimpse into a genteel world that maybe disappearing
According to most of the people featured in this new documentary the world of antiquarian bookselling is gently standing by watching its own demise. Everyone involved may have a different opinion on its potential survival, but they are all unanimous in who/what is to blame i.e. the internet. In New York from the 1890s to…
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Save The Date : Visible On TV starts on Valentines Day
Last month we wrote about Apple TVs new original TV Series VISIBLE : OUT ON TELEVISION about the history of how Queers changed the Shape of TV. (https:// queerguru.com/how-queers-changed-the-shape-of-tv/) Now the news series produced by Wanda Sykes and Wilson Cruz is about to hIt out screens : on Valentines Day no less. Here is…
