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Unconventional (Web Series)

By Golu
A Revry original,  Unconventional  is a really well-liked queer dramedy that feels totally different from the usual stuff. The heart of the story is about two pretty eccentric queer siblings and their partners trying to build a family that doesn't follow the traditional rules. It takes a super raw and unfiltered look at queer life, diving deep into things like mental health, addiction, and how complicated identity and relationships can get. It’s not afraid to get messy or show people at their most vulnerable, and it really pushes boundaries while showing a lot of different queer experiences. The first season has nine episodes, and each one is about a half-hour long. The story centers on Noah, a grad student who’s been struggling for years to wrap up his PhD. He’s been with his husband, Dan, for nine years, and they’ve recently gotten married and moved to Palm Springs. While they're trying to figure out how to start a family and have a baby, they decide to shake things up by in...
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Small Town Gay Bar (Documentary)

By Golu
The lives of gays in the Deep South are explored in this documentary, which looks at two bars in rural Mississippi that cater to a homosexual clientele. While the film certainly does address the ills of gay bashings, ignorance, harassment, and picketing; the documentary is first and foremost a touching celebration of the endurance and tenacity required of gay people living in the South, and how these clubs work as an island of acceptance for a small, family-like community, that is to be clung to and cherished at all costs. It is a low budget and rough-around-the-edges, but considering it came back in 2006 it's a well-made documentary.

As the self-explanatory title suggests, the film focuses on two isolated gay bars in Mississippi: Rumors, in Shannon, and the wild, anything-goes Crossroads in the woods outside Meridian, which shuttered two years ago and was replaced by the tamer Different Seasons. We see interviews of various patrons who offer candid accounts of living with fear and oppression — forced to keep their sexuality under wraps in the workplace and often with their families, battling attacks and public exposure from the religious right. The film also underlines the close alignment of racism and homophobia within the social prejudices of the South. Redneck hypocrisy is exposed via the hate campaign of an activist preacher who believes that notions of all-embracing Divine love only “fan the flames of fag lust.” The most unsettling insights are delivered in an account of a man brutally beaten, strangled, stabbed and partially decapitated over several hours before his body was dumped and set on fire. The victim’s brother continues to be subjected to anti-gay slurs in the wake of the killing.

The documentary tries to cover everything. Right from gay bashing to anti-gay church stance, and also the joy of people having fun and meeting potential lovers and partners in the bar. It also empowers gay people to come out and live the life they want. I, personally, would have never expected or even thought that small towns in rural America would have thriving gay bars and business. To be honest, not sure of theses places exist today, but it is heartening to see how people of LGBT community had a safe heaven and a place they could feel themselves in bars like these places. Not every gay person has the luxury to up and leave their hometowns and move to big cities. It is about time, people are made comfortable and not afraid for their lives in their comfort zones and hometowns. (5/10)
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