romance
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A Luv Tale : about 4 queer women in Harlem
It’s been 20 years since director’ Sidra Smith’s debut film A Luv Tale played the Film Festival circuit and picked up a couple of Audience Awards. Now she is back with a 6 part web series of the same name that picks up where she left off with the story of the lives of…
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Everything Is Free (although you often end up paying anyway)
After Brian Jordan Alvarez made his delightful web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, and before he hit the mainstream playing Jack’s new husband Estefan Gloria in Will and Grace he created this rather compelling love story in 2017. Alvarez wrote, directed, edited, starred in and even wrote the some of…
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Song Lang : the compelling story of an unlikely love
Leon Le’s heart-string-pulling story of a love that goes unconsummated is probably the the first LGBTQ movie from Vietnam that we have ever seen. If this is to be the standard bearer of a new source of queer cinema then we cannot wait to see what could follow that would match this. Set in…
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Rafiki : the defiant tale of two African girls in love
African queer films are very much a rarity essentially because so much of that Continent have laws that criminalise homsosexuality and also so much of the population traditionally cannot morally accept it. In fact this charming tale of first love between two teenage Kenyan girls that has been critically acclaimed globally is still banned…
