Word reaches Queerguru from our sweltering southern base in Miami of some moves afoot of combining social distancing with having fun : Drag Queen style. Next week sees the first event from the aptly named Drive In Divas at MASS District in Fort Lauderdale. Florida’s first drive in drag show us being hosted by … Continue reading
The 23rd Edition of OUTshine Film Festival has its Opening Night Gala Screening of our fav. feel-good queer movie Stage Mother The Movie at a Drive In Theater and the rest of its 10 Day Festival wiil be VIRTUAL and available to stream online.
It’s often tough enough getting an LGBTQ feature film in front of the audience it truly deserves, but it is so much harder with a queer short film. With all the Film Festivals on a forced hiatus this year due to the lockdown, we applaud Miami’s OUTshine Fest for its online programing that on … Continue reading
When Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante‘s went to cast his sophomore film a drama about a married man who comes out as gay he was shocked to discover that over 80% of the actors at the casting would not play ‘gay’ . He needn’t have worried though as he chose the extremely talented actor JUAN PABLO OLYSLAGER whose finely nuanced performance as the lead character makes this very disturbing drama so utterly watchable.
In what is the 2nd Guatemalan movie to every have an LGBT story line, Olyslager Pablo who is forced by his Church & family to give up on his chance of real happiness.
Bustamante, and Olyslager along with Sabrina De La Hoz , talked to QUEERGURU when the film was screened at Miami Film Festiva land now the movie is about to be screened at OUTshine in Fort Lauderdale
The 11th Edition of OUTShine Fort Lauderdale (the offspring of OUTShine Miami) kicks of its 10 day Festival on 10/10 with an eclectic & diverse program of films that cover most of the LGBTQ spectrum. The QUEERGURU team have been glued to the screen seeing almost all of the movies and here is our list of 10 MOVIES THAT YOU MUSN’T MISS