Tag: Puerto Rico
Perfume de Gardenias : a delicious black comedy about funerals
Whether this post-pandemic time is suitable for this rather wonderful black comedy that takes aim at the hypocrisy of funerals, seemed irrelevant. This deliciously funny satire is after all the work of Macha Colón, a character created by the artist Gisela Rosario Ramos and inspired by the iconic actor and drag queen Divine. In…
Puerto Ricans With HIV/AIDS Are Suffering After Maria
Puerto Ricans With HIV/AIDS Are Suffering After Maria Carmen Cruz, the mayor of the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said the government is doing everything it can to get medical help to people with HIV/AIDS. She said they “stocked up” medications and other supplies before Hurricane Maria hit, but quickly ran through most of…
Extra Terrestres
When Teresa (Marisé Alvarez) finally goes home after a 7 year absence to visit her very conservative family, she isn’t the only one feeling a little chicken. (Sorry we couldn’t resist the pun). She’s gone back to Puerto Rico to not just ‘come out’ as a lesbian to her family, but also to invite them to…
Mala Mala
A chance encounter in a bar in Austin Texas with an eloquent drag queen was the impetus for filmmakers Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles to embark on a journey that would take them to Puerto Rico to explore the world of transgender people and drag queens. What they discovered and recorded in this fascinating new…
