documentary
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah raves about JOIN THE CLUB an excellent doc on DENNIS PERON the greatest queer activist we’ve never heard off
Dennis Peron is the greatest queer activist you’ve never heard of. A fantastic new documentary, Join The Club, however, seeks to address that. It tells the story of how the one-time queer hippy improved millions of American lives through his 1980s and 1990s activism in launching the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, and the subsequent legalisation…
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Queerguru reviews AVANT DRAG : the story of 10 charismatic Greek drag queens who take to the streets to help achieve equal rights
Queer Greek Filmmaker Fil Ieropoulus is coming back to Wicked Queer …. Boston’s LGBTQ Film Festival …. to screen his second feature film AVANT DRAG. If you caught his debut feature ORFEAS2021 there a couple of years back, you will know that he likes to push the parameters as much as he can when…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ANY OTHER WAY: THE JACKIE SHANE STORY one of music’s pioneering Black trans performers.
In the 1960s Jackie Shane was a groundbreaking R&B star on the rise, she dared to say the things other people didn’t say, at a time when she knew she couldnt be who she really was. Under those premises, and throughout the film, animated sequences that resemble watercolor paintings, illustrate about Jackie´s doings, concerns,…
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Queerguru reviews “We Live Here : The Midwest” 5 queer families who are attempting to establish lives in their rural communities.
Having only ever lived in London, Miami and Provincetown, I have always appreciated that this is the equivalent of living in gay heaven. The first city was where I was born and the latter two I chose to be able to lead an openly gay life. I will confess It’s not a subject that…
