italian
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews My Boyfriend (El Fascista.) how politics can ruin your love life
Politics is increasingly polarised these days. Extremist news media, websites, and online social-media and other algorithms feed us what we want to consume – all with the aim of keeping us fearfully engaged for longer and longer, thereby satisfying advertising clients. This has led to an explosion in radical politics, in particular the rise of…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘ACCIDENTAL FRIENDS’ an Italian queer rom-com screening at OUTshine Miami’s Queer Film Fest
Accidental Friends (Amici Per Caso) directed by Max Nardari, is a gay Italian rom-com that feels like it should have been made thirty years ago but has been made today, perhaps only because same-sex civil partnerships, but not marriages, were made legal in Italy in 2016. Its comedy depends on worn-out stereotypes and clichés about…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah raved about BORN FOR YOU a brilliant drama about how Italian authorities will stop at nothing to prevent gay men becoming parents
Queer human rights remain a hot potato in most countries, including countries we’d expect to know better. Italy, for example, has a mixed record in this area. Same sex sexual activity has been legal in Italy since 1890, and Italy was one of the very few European nations to have an equal age for…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews CIURÉ , the debut feature of Gianpiero Puno. “Life in suburban Palermo can be tough”
A whimsical sequence of a child´s hands playing under a sheet bathed by the morning light, after what seems to have been a short night sleep ,and a tired bearded man waking up completely. The joyful father/son moment transforms into a rush since the kid is late for school and the father takes…
