Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPatrick Gale’s brilliant two-part story loosely based on his own parent’s marriage of compromise is by far the best part of the BBC TV’s excellent Queer Britannia series that screened in the UK earlier this year. The Man in The Orange Shirt are beautiful tales of love across two interconnected films highlighting the very … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Ondi Timoner’s spirited attempt to capture the very essence of the sheer genius who was Robert Mapplethorpe in this new scripted biopic, sadly leaves us asking for more. In the two decades of his short life that are portrayed by Matt Smith playing the troubled photographer shows a self-centred man who could manipulate … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAcclaimed writer Saleem Haddad’s first foray into filmmaking MARCO is a heartbreaking tale about the plight of a undocumented Syrian LGBTQ refugee in London who becomes a sex worker simply so he can afford to eat. After a long arduous journey by way of Turkey and the Refugee Camp in Calais to being a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLaila may be wheelchair bound because she has cerebral palsy, but it hardly seems an obstacle to stop this young student at the University of Delhi from doing exactly what she wants to do. Encouraged by her middle-class parents, she never lets her disability stop her getting exactly what she wants in life. That is until … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMario (Max Hubacher) is a star professional footballer in the junior league in a small Swiss Town and he is desperately hoping to win a place in the senior team in Germany next year. So does his pushy father a failed footballer who is now egging his son to fulfill the ambitions that he himself simply … Continue reading