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    Portrait of a Lady on Fire : one of the best queer movies of the Year

      Céline Sciammawho has already given us Water Lillies, Tomboy, Girlhood and Being 17. confirms her position as one of the leading queer filmmakers with this  her latest, and finest film to date.  Portrait of A Lady on Fire is an historical drama set in the 19th Century that tells of a forbidden affair between … Continue reading

    Portrait of Jason

    In 1967 Oscar nominated filmmaker Shirley Clarke ensconced herself in an apartment in N.Y.’s Chelsea Hotel on the evening of Dec. 3, 1966 and let her camera roll for the next 12 hours. Her subject was a much-larger-than-life articulate African/American man who, drink and cigarette always in hand, seems to never stop laughing. The very … Continue reading

    Pray Away : the rise and fall of ex-gay ministries

      As an out-gay man, you may sense in advance that the new documentary Pray Away will probably be upsetting, but it still doesn’t prepare you for the sheer horror stories it uncovers.  This is one of the most despicable things we have watched for sometime……not the actual (totally excellent) film by Kristine Stolakis but … Continue reading

    Preview of ‘Fellow Travelers’ a queer VERY STEAMY TV Series on Showtime next month

      There’s nothing Queerguru likes more than to be able to describe a new queer movie/TV show as steamy.  And this one is VERY. Fellow Travelers is a political thriller starring  two of our favorite out gay actors Brit Jonathan Bailey (Lord Anthony Bridgerton) and Matt Bomer (Boys In The Band) It’s based on the … Continue reading

    Queerguru reviews PRIDE when the UK gay community and the Miners got together to defeat Thatcher

    In the summer of 1984 when London’s annual Gay Pride Pride was taking place Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) a young passionate activist (who eerily looked like Morrissey from The Smiths) decided that he wanted to form a Gay & Lesbian group to help support the country’s distressed and embattled miners. U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher … Continue reading

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