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Moneyboys : a powerful queer Chinese story of love, survival and acceptance
Since 1996 when East Palace, West Palace was the first Mainland Chinese movie with an explicitly homosexual theme was released, there have been very few films to follow its lead. Like with MONEYBOYS it is deemed too unsafe to make Chinese queer film actually in situ, so filmmakers such as Taiwan/Austrian C.B. Yi use…
‘Coming Out” 1989 : the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany.
‘Coming Out” is a unique part of queer history being the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany. And if that is not enough, it actually premiered on November 9th 1989 …. the day the Berlin Wall fell. The story centers on a young teacher Philipp (Matthias Freihof) who enters a…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews HIPBEAT: the story of a political activist looking for love in queer Berlin
Berlin has been a haven and mecca for queers from all over the world for over 100 years now. By 1925 there were already over 80 LGBTQ+ venues in the city although many closed during the years of Nazi rule. Post 1945 however Berlin regained its queer crown. Samuel Kay Forrest’s coming-of-age drama Hipbeat…
Queerguru is really not that ‘Wild About Harry’
There is always a red flag that comes with any movie whose release has been delayed by several years. Back in 2014, Emilo Estefan produced his wife in A Change of Heart which took three years for what we think was its only any screening before it was put back on its dusty shelf…
