intersex
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘MY DEAREST SEÑORITA’ a remake of an historic intersex drama on Netflix
This is a remake and adaptation directed by Fernando González Molina from the original 1972 Spanish film directed by Jaime de Armiñán, starring José Luis López Vásquez, Chus Lampreave, and a young Julieta Serrano, was made, under the Francisco Franco regime. The film deals with the delicate and complex subject matter of intersexuality. Set in Pamplona, Navarra …
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Honey Lauren talks about her excellent debut feature film ‘MISTAKE’
Award-winning writer/director Honey Lauren‘s feature film debut, MISTAKE, is one of the rare pieces of art that actually gave our Editor/reviewer very weepy eyes. ‘MISTAKE’ is not just a tale of gender dysphoria but a rather beautiful love story full of empathy that celebrates difference. Larry was born intersex back in the 1970’s in the…
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The Secret of Me : a compelling doc of a raging medical expose of how an Intersex person was mistreated
Last week was Intersex Awareness Day, which marked the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in North America in 1996, and was created to raise awareness of human rights issues facing intersex people and promote understanding, respect, and inclusion for intersex people. To celebrate the occasion in Australia the City of Sydney…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WHO I AM NOT : breaking the intersex taboo
Who I Am Not is a fascinating documentary chronicling the lives of two engaging, very different, black intersex people; South African ex-beauty queen Sharon-Rose, and unemployed fellow South African, Dimakatso, both of whom live in Johannesburg. Intersex people are people born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals…
