Brydie O'Connor's tenderly-crated feature debut Barbara Forever, world premiering in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, is as sensual, intimate and uninhibited as much of the work of its prolific subject, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Immediately drawing us into Hammer's world, where the personal and artistic are interwoven, we hear... Continue Reading →
Following its world premiere at Cannes, where it was nominated for the Queer Palm and won the Critics' Week Grand Prize, writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's startlingly original and delectably queer debut feature A Useful Ghost (Pee Chai Dai Ka) made its North American premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to be... Continue Reading →
It’s funny how the catchphrase “Stop the insanity!” means something so different now than when anyone of age in the 90s first heard it. Now it feels like my mantra in response to the horror show of the daily news cycle, whereas during the grunge/dot-com decade, the phrase only referred to a ubiquitous infomercial exercise... Continue Reading →
There’s something inherently destabilizing about a room full of naked men. Trust me, I know—as a trans man who frequents a clothing-forbidden Korean spa (for the spa water, not the schlongs)—a room of naked men is enough to disrupt the monolithic idea of what it is to be a man. Not because of sex, exactly,... Continue Reading →
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival, opening Thursday, January 22nd, will mark its final edition in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, ahead of the festival's move to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Running in person through February 1st, select titles will also be available nationwide online from January 29th. This year's festival is the first... Continue Reading →
The Boyfriend is back (now he's back and things'll be fine) as Netflix’s Japanese gay reality dating series returns for an even stronger sophomore season. Second chances are the name of the game in this thoughtful, introspective, and charming series. The Boyfriend Season 2. Courtesy of Netflix. Eight eligible men between the ages of 20... Continue Reading →
This weekend sees fellow Drag Race alum, Plastique Tiara and Nymphia Wind, launch The Serpents Tour across the United States. Inspired by the classic Asian folktale of the White Snake and Green Snake, the show follows two mystical serpents on a journey of love, adversity, and sisterhood. “The Serpents Tour is a chance to reimagine... Continue Reading →
If you loved Heated Rivalry, Jacob Tierney’s TV adaptation of Rachel Reid’s Game Changer series of novels and are longing for more queer hockey romances, you're in luck, there is a whole raft of books out there to discover; from YA, to spicy adult fiction and sapphic stories. François Arnaud as Scott Hunter and Robbie... Continue Reading →
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York filmmakers Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki collaborated with voice actors and composers to create 2 Lizards, a captivating surrealist eight-part animated series. Originally released on Bennani’s Instagram account, the episodes focused on two anthropomorphic lizard best friends as they experienced the isolation, uncertainty and yearning... Continue Reading →
Belgian filmmaker Cato Kusters makes her powerfully affecting feature debut with an adaptation of Fleur Pierets’ acclaimed 2019 book, Julian, a memoir of love, activism, and grief. In 2017, Fleur (Nina Meurisse) and her wife Julian P. Boom (Laurence Roothooft) launched 22 The Project, a performance art piece in which the couple planned to get... Continue Reading →
Bretten Hannam is a Two-Spirit L’nu filmmaker living in Kespukwitk, Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), Canada where they were raised. They wrote and directed the short films, New Skin, Puppy, Deep End, and Elmiteskuatl, and the features North Mountain and Wildhood, which was one of the 2SLGBTQ+ highlights at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Hannam... Continue Reading →
