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‘Coming Out” 1989 : the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany. 

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  ‘Coming Out” is a unique part of queer history being the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany.  And if that is not enough, it actually premiered on November 9th 1989 …. the day the Berlin Wall fell. The story centers on a young teacher Philipp (Matthias Freihof) who enters a … Continue reading



CURED : the story of the LGBTQ activists who fought back against American Psychiatry : reviewed by Queerguru’s Ris Fatah

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“Cured” is a must-see. An award-winning documentary that takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBTQ+ equality: the very influential American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.  Early US gay rights activist groups – such as the … Continue reading





Enfant Terrible : the story of queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Enfant Terrible is a perfect name for this unsettling biopic about the queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder.  Filmmaker Oskar Roehler spares no punches in telling the tale of this outrageous egomaniac who treated everybody in his life so vilely and in a manner that could not be justified by the fact that his films … Continue reading



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