Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesNearly every documentary that depicts someone’s transitioning journey is tough to sit and watch. Mainly because as they struggle with gender dysphoria they are made outcasts by their families, and facing poverty and unable to be employed become sex workers which puts their whole lives at risk. Very few are able to take this … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSmall Talk is one of those compelling documentaries that demand patience from the viewer in the same manner that Hui-chen Huang the filmmaker had to exercise in getting her mother ……the subject of the film ….to open up about her life. Their share a home together in Taiwan, and although the presence Huang’s very young child … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor his 5th documentary queer Canadian filmmaker Malcolm Ingram has returned to the American South where he shot his award-winning Small Town Gay Bar in 2006, Now he is back in two small towns in Mississippi on the Gulf Coast looking at the state of the LGBTQ community just after Trump’s election in 2016. We … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is one of those hard-to-believe it’s true stories that never really grabbed the attention of the media so when you come to it ignorance and it unfolds on the screen and you hear the horrifying incredulous details, you cannot fail to be stunned into a combination of shock and anger. The latter particularly if you … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesBy the time we saw SPRING AWAKENING at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in 2007 it had already won 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical. We can confidently say its one of the finest pieces of theater we have ever seen Its also where we (and the rest of the World) fell in love with … Continue reading