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The Foxy Merkins

Margaret is a big lumpy mess.  She’s arrived in Manhattan and is homeless and jobless and has decided to resort to being a hooker to make ends meet. The trouble is that this overweight unkempt lesbian seems to have little experience in sexual matters let alone trying to make a living from providing a service … Continue reading

The Fruit Machine : how Canada persecuted the LGBT community in the past

  For those of us in the LGBTQ community in the  US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay.  … Continue reading

The Fruit Machine : two entirely different queer films with the same name

  Two years ago we reviewed Sarah Fodey’s excellent doc about how in the late 1950’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police invented the ‘Fruit Machine’ to rout out homosexuals.  This inept piece of technology didn’t work at all but it didn’t stop the RCMP and the Canadian Military from having a witchhunt for decades to … Continue reading

The Garden Left Behind

  This new and completely mesmerising movie from queer Latinx filmmaker Flavio Alves makes such a crucial contribution to the continuing dialogue on the transgender community. This story that traces the relationship between Tina (Carlie Guevara) a young, Latina, trans woman and Eliana (Miriam Cruz) her grandmother, as they navigate Tina’s transition and struggle brings … Continue reading

The Gay History of Sitges

  Sitges is a small beach town some 40 miles south of Barcelona in Spain that has long been recognized as an international mecca for gay tourists.  The main day-time attraction during the summer are the 17 sun soaked beaches that line the coast of this tiny Catalan town,  and then at night its exuberant … Continue reading

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