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Queer International. 4K Restoration!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavily censored upon release in director Lino Brocka’s native Philippines but hugely successful overseas, Macho Dancer <\/em>blends a flair for socially conscious melodrama with niche erotic pulp provocation. Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo Pol leaves his native province to try his luck in the soapy gay clubs of Manila, where he discovers more than his young mind bargains for: an underbelly of protection rackets, human trafficking, and teeming political corruption. Beneath the film\u2019s astutely cynical look on systemic, class exploitation in the Philippines is a neon-lit tale of sexual self-discovery gyrating between queer desire and heteronormative strictures, sensuality and grit, tenderness and violence.<\/p>\n

The Union Cinema is on the second floor of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the UW-Milwaukee Student Union building.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Queer International. 4K Restoration! Heavily censored upon release in director Lino Brocka’s native Philippines but hugely successful overseas, Macho Dancer blends a flair for socially conscious melodrama with niche erotic pulp provocation. 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