The Queer Review is excited to reveal this exclusive image from new series October Faction created by Damian Kindler (American Gods, Sleepy Hollow, Krypton). Based on the IDW comics by Steve Niles and Damien Worm, season 1 of October Faction, which has been described as Men in Black meets Riverdale, launches globally on Netflix this... Continue Reading →
My Moments Out Of Time – Glenn Gaylord’s Look Back At 2019 In Film
Instead of a top 10 list, every year I like to honor a long-discontinued but influential annual column from Film Comment magazine. I couldn’t wait for my father to come home from work with the “Moments Out Of Time” issue. The writers would cite their favorite scenes, images, or lines of dialogue, even from films... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Four Play (Above The Stag, London) ★★★★
Gay relationships are hard! Maybe it’s because it’s winter, maybe it’s because of Brexit, maybe it’s because that’s just life, but London’s season of domestic gay complications continues with Jake Brunger’s Four Play. London’s LGBTQ focused theatre, Above The Stag, has relaunched its studio space with this tight tale of two gay couples dealing with... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse Theatre, London) ★★★★★
James McAvoy is currently the hottest thing on London’s West End, playing a famously unattractive man. Tickets to Cyrano de Bergerac are in short supply thanks to the combined power of McAvoy and superstar director Jamie Lloyd. This reworked Cyrano is stripped back and refreshingly sexy. McAvoy is the star of the show, both in... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: gay erotic artist Sam Morris “people have these boundaries in their heads between pornography & self-expression & erotica & art”
Before OnlyFans enabled the monetisation of nudes and sexual encounters for the masses, gay erotic artist Sam Morris had already launched his own website, SamMorris.me, to share his conceptualised, documentary style portraits and videos without fear of social media censorship. Asking his followers to pay for what he’d previously been offering for free on Tumblr... Continue Reading →
Pose Creator Ryan Murphy to be honoured by GLAAD
The Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony winning screenwriter, producer, and director Ryan Murphy will be honoured with the Vito Russo Award at the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Hilton Midtown in New York on Thursday, March 19 2020. POSE "Never Knew Love Like This Before" Season 2, Episode 4. Angelica Ross as Candy.... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Boy Radio on his debut album Pop That
Brooklyn based artist Boy Radio released his debut album Pop That in 2019. Genuinely alternative, innovative, sexy, witty and often resoundingly queer, it quickly became one of The Queer Review’s favourite records of the year. We also like looking at the stunning images he shares on Instagram and the often rather sensational outfits he sports... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Coming Clean (Trafalgar Studios, London) ★★★1/2
Kevin Elyot’s debut play, Coming Clean, is back as the King's Head Theatre’s production returns to London’s West End. In pre-AIDS 80s Thatcherite Britain a gay couple Tony (Lee Knight) and Greg (Stanton Plummer-Cambridge) feel out the boundaries of their long-term relationship. Enter a young, sexy cleaner named Robert (Jonah Rzeskiewicz) who puts things to... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Marty Thomas talks new album Slow Dancing with a Boy
As a child he famously won Ed McMahon’s Junior Star Search over the then-unknown Britney Spears. As an adult, Marty Thomas created a name for himself on Broadway in shows like Xanadu, Wicked and The Secret Garden, on Netflix's Grace & Frankie, and has been a staple of New York City nightlife for well over... Continue Reading →
Evolve. Emerge. Fly. Sydney’s Mardi Gras Film Festival Announces 2020 Line Up
For the first time in its 27 year history, an Australian LGBTQ feature film will open Queer Screen's 27th Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney. Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) is a Sydney-based rom-com focusing on a teenage lesbian love affair, looking at Australia's own civil rights movement. Starring Marta Dusseldorp (Stateless, Janet... Continue Reading →
