Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt seems like so many countries have undergone a dark period in their history when they undertook merciless witch-hunts against the LGBTQ population. In the US it started in 1953 under Eisenhower, and what became known as The Lavendar Scare lasted some four decades. In that period thousands of people lost their livelihoods and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe first time we see forty-something year Polish Marianna is as she is heading to Court to sue her aged parents. It is evidently the only way that she can be allowed to go ahead with the sex realignment surgery which is the final part of her transitioning. After Marianne separated from her wife of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt is 1945 in the depth of the Polish countryside in the heart of winter and a young novice nun surreptitiously escapes from her convent and makes tracks over the snow covered fields to the nearby town to seek out a doctor. She waylays three young children playing in the street and pleads with them, to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s hard to decide exactly what period this new cinematic masterpiece from Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski is set in with its austere dramatic settings that look like they have remained unchanged for centuries. This unforgiving bleak countryside that seems to have escaped any attempt at modernisation is in fact 1962 but you have this sinking feeling that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFather Adam is the pastor of a minute parish in the hinterlands of Poland where he has opened a center for ‘difficult’ teenage ex reformatory boys. In this bleak countryside he, and his lay helper Michel, have fashioned their small group of unruly charges into almost responsible young men. They play football, go swimming and … Continue reading
