The latest big queer news from Down Under is not from Australia for a change but it’s smaller near neighbor New Zealand. They have just made an Independent LGBT web series FLUNK: The Exchange which has gone viral literally overnight ……clocking up over 1 million views in its very first month. After getting her … Continue reading
One of the best new queer docs that came out of Tribeca Film Festival this year was The Legend of the Underground by Nneka Onuorah and Giselle Bailey Based around an event in August 2018 when Nigerian police raided a birthday party at a hotel in Lagos, throwing 57 men in jail for allegedly participating in a … Continue reading
Award-winning Canadian documentarian Bobbi Jo Hart has this knack for uncovering queer stories that we may have heard of, but for the most part, are untold. She did this beautifully with her affectionate and in-depth look at Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the world’s foremost all-male ballet company in ‘Rebels on Pointe’. … Continue reading
Over the past few years, Emmy Award-winning producer and director Jeffrey Schwarz has carved out quite a niche as the leading exponent of creating such excellent documentaries of leading queer icons. So far he has told us the stories of Vito Russo, Tab Hunter, Allen Carr, Jack Wrangler, and the fabulous Divine. However, this … Continue reading
If Joan Jett Blakk had her way back in 1992 then William Jefferson Clinton would have never have been the 42nd President of this USA. Ms Blakk was an African-American openly gay drag queen….. the alter ego of queer activist Terence Alan Smith… and she was running as a write-in presidential candidate at the … Continue reading