Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWriter/director John Butler’s enchanting coming-of-age movie about two very likable 16-year-old boys in an Irish Boarding School seems to sidestep some of the grittier aspects of homophobia to ensure that the end result is an engagingfeel-good movie that the LGBT community is bound to make it into one of the more popular hits of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen 20 something-year-old designer Lauren (Velinda Godfrey) is dealing with her girlfriend Nicole dying after an extended battle with cancer she is totally on her own. Her very conservative and religious mother (Beth Grant) is in denial about the girls relationship, and her self-absorbed brother is too busy with his own business to be there for … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis devastatingly heartbreaking true story of two young Australian men Timothy Conigrave and his ‘husband’ John Caleo is so good that it needs to be told twice. Well, actually three times if you also count the award-winning play that ended up being staged all around the world. Conigrave wrote his memoir that both movies and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesHurricane Bianca is a contemporary take on a 1950’s screwball comedies and is about Richard a down-on-his-luck NY science school teacher who ends up taking a job in a small town school in the middle of rural Texas. This openly gay man sticks out like a sore thumb, and is soon fired. To keep his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself. This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted directly … Continue reading