documentary
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Dawn: A Charleston Legend
Ron Davis’s fascinating documentary on Dawn Langley Simmons plays out like a hard-to-believe fictional story surrounded by an air of utter sadness. Although we get a distinct impression that although Dawn herself may have agreed her life was tough, she would with an air of bravado and fortitude definitely describe it as being…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews DONNA a heart-warming documentary that follows trans activist, performer, and former Cockette, Donna Personna,
Donna is a heart-warming documentary that follows trans activist, performer, and former Cockette, Donna Personna, as she learns, later in life, to live her most authentic trans life and to reconnect with her family as a woman. “This is who I want to be and who I want to show the world” Donna was…
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Maisie : Britain’s Oldest Performing Drag Artiste
Brit filmmaker Lee Cooper’s debut feature documentary is an unbridled ode to one of Britain’s lesser-known camp legends: (that’s unless you are an English gay man of a certain age). David Raven aka Maisie Trollette is the oldest drag queen still performing in the UK …..(but don’t call her that she much prefers drag artiste). …
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Varichina-the true story of the fake life of Lorenzo de Santis
In the 1970’s Lorenzo de Santis was ‘the only gay in the village’ in Bari an economical depressed port town in Southern Italy. Well, he was the only known homosexual at that time, and by all accounts he was so openly flamboyant that he probably made up for the rest of them still hidden in…
