Steven Menendez shares a new study in male beauty portfolio with The Queer Review shot in October, 2025 in New York City. Male Beauty I featuring Randall Kohn. Photo credit: Steven Menendez. Steven Menendez: I created this series of images because I wanted to show the soft and tender side of male beauty. I was... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar’s Day – “it’s a love story about a friendship”
With a career spanning more than three decades, Ira Sachs is one of the most acclaimed American independent filmmakers of his generation with work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney. Among many accolades, his brooding queer feature, Keep The Lights On, won the Teddy Award at the 2012... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Messy White Gays (The Duke on 42nd Street, Off-Broadway) ★★★★
When Drew Droege, most widely known for his inspired viral Chloë Sevigny parody videos, spoke with The Queer Review in March 2020 about his one-man show Happy Birthday Doug, he mused, “I think we’re afraid as queer people to write flawed gay characters”. With his latest Off-Broadway comedy, Messy White Gays, the writer-star shows no... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Sal Salandra wants his thread paintings to celebrate the joy of gay sex & encourage self-acceptance
80-year-old self-taught erotic artist Sal Salandra's vibrant needlepoint "thread paintings" pulsate with a playful carnal energy that unapologetically celebrates the bliss of gay sex in all its variety. Salandra's use of a medium that is typically associated with more neutral, traditionally domestic motifs to conjure kinetic scenes of fisting, orgies, and BDSM gives the work... Continue Reading →
Drag icon BenDeLaCreme to host queen of burlesque Dita Von Teese’s UK & Europe Nocturnelle 2026 tour
Drag icon BenDeLaCreme will host the queen of burlesque Dita Von Teese’s Nocturnelle 2026 UK and European tour. From LA’s Dolby Theater to New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall, BenDeLaCreme has starred in, directed, written, and produced some of the most successful original drag theatre work of all time. Ahead of Nocturnelle, DeLa will be touring this fall... Continue Reading →
The Queer Agenda: November 2025
Welcome to the November edition of The Queer Agenda, The Queer Review’s curated monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City and beyond. Unidentified photographer, Gladys Bentley (1907-1960), ca. 1940. Silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper. Collection of the Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture. Continues through March 8,... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Prince Faggot star Mihir Kumar on Off-Broadway’s most talked about play of the year – “I’ve never felt such a strong personal attachment to something I was in”
Mihir Kumar is currently starring in one of New York's most talked about plays of the year—Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury—in an extended run at Studio Seaview through December 13th, 2025, following a sell-out world premiere stint at Playwrights Horizons this summer. The play, which marks Kumar's stunning Off-Broadway debut, sees... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Bryson Battle, B Noel Thomas & J. Harrison Ghee on Off-Broadway’s exhilarating new musical Saturday Church – “it’s today’s queer liberation story”
Three decades ago, Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking Rent was birthed Off-Broadway in Manhattan's East Village at the storied New York Theatre Workshop. Now an equally timely, poignant, and empowering new musical is setting that venue ablaze each night with defiant and uplifting queer joy. Boasting fierce creative credentials, Saturday Church has a book and additional lyrics... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Plainclothes filmmaker Carmen Emmi – “cruising exists in the cracks of society”
Carmen Emmi's Sundance Award-winning debut feature Plainclothes, starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey, is now playing in New York and Los Angeles and expands to more cities over the coming weeks. Set in upstate New York in 1997, Blyth plays a young undercover cop, Lucas, who is assigned to patrol a shopping mall restroom to... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Photo Story: Farewell to Summer from Cherry Grove, Fire Island by Steven Menendez
As we bid farewell to Summer, photographer Steven Menendez shares this stunning new photo series with The Queer Review shot in August, 2025 in Cherry Grove, Fire Island. Cherry Grove, Fire Island - August 2025. Photo credit: Steven Menendez. Steven Menendez: In this photo essay, I set out to explore and celebrate the beauty of... Continue Reading →
