Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Paul Detwiler’s documentary on the history of gay bars in San Diego is a story that is very similar to that from many other urban areas in the US who have seen the rise and fall of their number of establishments in the past few decades. He starts his film in the aftermath of WW2 when … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor his first time behind the camera successful out-gay actor, Matthew Montgomery has directed and co-written an entertaining psychological LGBT thriller that reeks of intrigue and more than its fair share of blood and violence. The action takes place in 1992 in a large remote forest that is the setting for a rather notorious cruising area for gay men … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland who has a decidedly inquisitive passion for eccentric ground-breaking icons of style has added a third to her collection, with this rather wonderful profile on the effete English photographer and designer Cecil Beaton. Despite the fact that in his multi-faceted career Beaton won 3 Academy Awards and 4 Tony Awards and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLife in The Doghouse is one of those documentaries that will touch the heart of the coldest of souls. It’s a wonderful love story between two exceptional gay men and their ever-growing four-legged family which have taken over every semblance of what once passed as their ‘normal life’. Ron Danta and Danny Robertshaw, both in their 60’s, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAlex Strangelove is a gay teen comedy that thankfully is so much better than the squeaky clean over-sanitized rather drippy drama Love Simon that was loved by mainly teenage girls with the same passion that most gay men loathed it. For one thing, it’s rather raunchy and its protagonist Alex Truelove (Daniel Doheny) hasn’t yet … Continue reading
