documentary
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Matt Timmiss talks about his affectionate new doc CITY OF QUEENS
Queer Brit filmmaker Matt Timmiss is just doing the post-production of his first documentary CITY OF QUEENS a very affectionate look at the very talented UK drag queens who get their highs by entertaining their local communities. He gave us a preview of some of his clips before we filmed this interview with him via…
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Birds of the Borderlands : Jordan Bryon’s look at gender and sexual identity in the Middle East
When the camera starts rolling on Birds of the Borderlands it is initially hard to work out if Australian genderqueer filmmaker /activist Jordan Bryon is foolhardy or brave or equally part of both. Bryon who prefers to use they, them, their pronouns on a whim took it upon themself to up and move to…
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The Fruit Machine : how Canada persecuted the LGBT community in the past
For those of us in the LGBTQ community in the US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay. …
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Becoming Colleen: Finding the Shoe that Fits
Becoming Colleen: Finding the Shoe that Fits is a compelling documentary about a remarkable 85 year Australian transgender woman who is about to move to a Christian retirement village where she fears that they will insist she dresses as a man. Having lived most of her life as Colin – a husband, father, policeman,…
