Sport has always been a battlefield, especially in recent years when it comes to gender and sexuality. Nonbinary filmmaker Mitch Nivalis gives us a clear step by step examination of the structural issues involved in opening sports up to women and gender-diverse people in their new documentary, Equal The Contest, which sees a group of... Continue Reading →
Prolific documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz’s (Vito, I Am Divine) latest feature, Commitment to Life, valuably adds more threads to the tapestry of our understanding of the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States by focusing on Los Angeles and the entertainment industry, in particular the work of the AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Tom Hardiman’s arthouse-camp-murder-mystery Medusa Deluxe is serving mood along with insults like “you Pantene Pro-V c*nt”. It’s a stunning technical achievement mixed with a seductive ambience that soars when it works. Backstage ahead of a regional hair show, a stylist Mosca (John Roberts), has been murdered and savagely scalped. Locked down waiting for the... Continue Reading →
One of Australia’s most prominent nonbinary performers, Seann Miley Moore continues to make their fabulous mark on television—they've appeared on both The X-Factor in the UK and Australia's The Voice—and on stage—most recently earning rave reviews as Angel in Rent at the Sydney Opera House. A headliner at Sydney WorldPride earlier this year, their most... Continue Reading →
Alison Bechdel’s beloved weekly comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, has been adapted into a series of audio plays on Audible with an all-star cast including Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia), Roberta Colindrez (A League of Their Own) and Roxane Gay (New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist), with narration by Jane Lynch (Glee). Set in... Continue Reading →
Well, helloooo poppets! Broadway’s musical adaptation of the classic Robin Williams comedy Mrs Doubtfire has come to London highlighting the multifaceted talent that is lead performer Gabriel Vick and bringing lots of big smiles to the audience. Daniel (Gabriel Vick) is an out of work actor and a complete manchild. Bubbling with creativity he can’t... Continue Reading →
Self Tape, a one-person show about the tricky world of cam sex, returns to London’s King's Head Theatre after a successful first run earlier this year. This is a classic, old-school style of gay theatre; a fringe play about sex work, featuring a handsome actor, and copious nudity. Jonas Harland (Michael Batten) is an out... Continue Reading →
Jacky (Guy Simon) is two things. The poster child of a hardworking, well-educated "blackfella" in the big city, and also a successful sex worker who knows that his skin colour is part of his package. In both realms of life, his Aboriginality can be a strength and a hindrance, but how much of himself is... Continue Reading →
Danny Ball is alive as Ari, the drug-fueled, hungry protagonist of Loaded, an adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’ novel of youthful queer excess in Melbourne, Australia. Updated to the 2020s by Tsiolkas and Dan Giovannoni, this one-man show is a fierce dive into the brain and body of a second-generation Greek-Australian defying the world around him.... Continue Reading →
Australia’s ABC offers a creative musical drama with In Our Blood, exploring the country's response to the height of the AIDS crisis. The four-part series weaves 1980s hits with a camp aesthetic as it follows a young gay political operator who finds himself working in government as the crisis emerges. Tim Draxl (The Newsreader, Into... Continue Reading →
