Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe sheer joy (if joy is the correct description) of excellent queer documentaries like “Marry Me However” is that it helps bring a greater understanding how of the struggles of accepting one’s sexuality in some parts of the world causes such unimaginable problems. In this case Israeli director (Rabbi) Mordechai Vardi’s intriguing film outlines … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesHow do you make an intimate documentary when your subject refuses to be photographed? Ask Reiner Holzemer who hot from his acclaimed profile on Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten he turned his attention one of Noten’s peers Martin Margiela. To be honest it was Margiela’s demand was hardly news to Holzemer as he … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s hard to grasp the fact that Matthew Shepard should have been celebrating his 37th birthday this year if it hadn’t been for the tragic events of that fateful night 16 years ago on that desolate prairie outside of Laramie in Wyoming. So many of us still think of him as the slight short blond-haired … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Pete Buttigieg campaigned to be the Democratic Candidate for President of the USA in 2020, he somehow managed to keep most of us in the dark about who he really was/is. This intensely private man whose sexuality made his candidature so unique and unwittingly such a major focus of his platform still remains … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe great veteran British actor and passionate LGBTQ activist Sir Ian McKellen has yet to write an autobiography about his very full and successful life, but maybe he won’t have to now after this intimate and affectionate documentary of his life. For the film, made by Joe Stephenson, McKellen evidently sat in a comfortable … Continue reading