Tag: transgender
Tennessee passes Law to ban all drag queens : It could be the start of a very slippery slope
Last year Tennessee was debating a bill that failed to include a minimum age limit for marriage. Child brides are evidently fine for the upstanding legislators the self-appointed moral guardians of the state. However, these are the same lawmakers who this week actually passed a bill banning drag shows in public ! This law…
Queerguru reviews A PLACE OF OUR OWN : the trials & tribulations of an Indian transgender pair seeking accomodation
A Place Of Our Own is a new feature film about the trials and tribulations of a couple of transgender women In Bhopal, India, and is a tragic reminder of how life for them has not progressed at all in society. The film, made by the Ektara Collective, an independent collaborative of filmmakers which…
Ray Whitehouse talks about A RUN FOR MORE the inspiring story of a transgender woman who wants ‘a seat at the table’
Ray Whitehouse talks to Queerguru about his debut feature film A RUN FOR MORE a compelling documentary about a charismatic Texan transgender woman and her campaign to be elected for the rough District 8 of San Antonio’s City Council in the US’ most transphobic State and in the middle of a very dangerous political…
Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews the re-released ‘Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul)’ a landmark transgender film from 1983
The opening nighttime scene presents people walking at Jorge Manrique Street in Madrid, and for a moment you may recall Rome and Federico Fellini´s masterpiece Nights of Cabiria, but in a matter of seconds, the women in fur coats scream and run away quickly, the police is coming for them in a raid against…
Run For More : the compelling documentary about a charismatic Texan transgender woman and her fight ‘for a seat at the table’
So many of us in the LGBTQ+ community have such traumatic experiences when we ‘come out’ that it can have such an adverse effect on our future behavior in society. Even more for those that are the ‘T’ part of the equation. However not so for Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe a transgender woman in Texas who…
