The thing about "alternative" Christmas shows is that they can often be the most Christmassy things you’ll see all season, aside from your drunk auntie Doris snoozing in the corner with her party hat on. Queerness has certainly been at the heart of Christmas programming for the past few years at Wales Millennium Centre, where... Continue Reading →
Ron Nyswaner's exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction, Fellow Travelers, is a compelling and deeply moving epic miniseries that takes in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s and follows its repercussions in the lives of those directly affected through the following decades, taking in the post-Stonewall period of liberation in the 70s up to... Continue Reading →
Whenever filmmaker Jonathan Glazer releases a new film, and he has only made four in the past 23 years, I sit up and take notice. Sexy Beast, Birth, and Under The Skin made lasting impressions, and his latest, The Zone Of Interest, has profoundly affected me more than any other film I’ve seen this year.... Continue Reading →
A decade after the publication of The Days of Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin returns to his beloved Tales of the City with a delectably satisfying new addition—the tenth book in the series—Mona of the Manor. Transporting us to Gloucestershire, England in 1993, we're reunited with Mona in her late forties, ten years after she became... Continue Reading →
As I was dashing through the rain in Brooklyn on Friday night, headed for the appropriately majestic Kings Theatre—a venue fit for two queens—to catch this year's Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show, I had no doubt that I would have a (snow) ball in their company, but questioned whether I would have anything new to... Continue Reading →
Created by Oscar-nominated Philadelphia screenwriter Ron Nyswaner, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, the eight-episode Showtime miniseries Fellow Travelers is an exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction. With a nuanced gay love story at its centre, it is a captivating, sweeping, and deeply moving epic that takes in the Lavender Scare of the... Continue Reading →
In his first collection release of 2023, Rowena Social Club founder and creative director James Ford is taking our closets back to simpler times where we loved to get our hands dirty and leave our plates clean: Grandma’s house! “You don’t associate ‘fashion’ with grandma’s sewing machine. But I like the aesthetics of the past,... Continue Reading →
FIFA legend Jaiyah Saelua caught the world's attention as one of the subjects of Mike Brett and Steve Jamison's 2014 feature documentary Next Goal Wins which celebrated the resilience and passion of American Samoa's national football team. Best known for their spectacular 31-0 loss to Australia in 2001 during a World Cup qualifying match, a... Continue Reading →
Playwright Hansol Jung and veteran Tony-nominated director Leigh Silverman reunite, following their collaborations on Cardboard Piano and Wild Goose Dreams, to create an evening of queer bliss with the hilarious lesbian sex comedy Merry Me running at New York Theatre Workshop until Sunday, November 19th. Jung's new play brings together Restoration comedy, Greek theatre, and... Continue Reading →
"Many men feel insecure and lack self-confidence because they do not see themselves represented in the media. However, as we become accustomed to images of diverse bodies, we can all feel more liberated". That's the view of Berlin-based portrait photographer Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert who is about to release his third photography book, BIGGER. Featured in... Continue Reading →
