Ris Fatah
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews the nostalgic ‘Moss & Freud’, which details the relationship between the model Kate Moss and the artist Lucien Freud.
Iconic model Kate Moss has always excelled at controlling her public persona, drip-feeding just enough personal information to keep her public satisfied whilst maintaining a very full private life largely away from scrutiny. ¨Never complain, Never explain.¨ Her many followers will no doubt then lap up her latest project, Moss & Freud, a drama based…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘We’ll Find Happiness’, an excellent drama about a queer couple seeking asylum in Canada, the gala closing film at Miami´s Outshine Film Festival.
Homosexuality remains illegal in 69 countries around the world. Queer life in some of those countries is so dangerous that many people leave everything behind and endure long, torturous journeys, illegally crossing borders, over months, or sometimes years, to claim asylum and find freedom in a more accepting land. We´ll Find Happiness, a powerful drama…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘BLUE BOY TRIAL’ the heartfelt story of the landmark 1960’s Japanese trans rights court case
Queer life in 1960´s Japan isn’t mentioned very often, even though by the mid-1960s there were about fifty gay bars in Tokyo, albeit largely discreet and low profile. Tokyo´s current queer neighbourhood of Shinjuku Ni-Chome was already a thing by then. Trans lives were also becoming easier, in part due to the pioneering gender-affirming surgery…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LONE STAR BULL a dramatic thriller starring Luke MacFarlane
Queer human rights are never earned permanently. They are always under threat of attack from wrong ´uns, never more so than right now with the various right-wing fanatic governments around the world, including Trump’s Republican Party. Sometimes it feels as though we are heading back to the homophobic 1980s Reagan era. This makes director…
