Today, Michael Joseph launches a Kickstarter campaign for his upcoming photography book Wild West of the East: A Portrait of Provincetown, available for pre-order now. Wild West of the East is an ongoing street portrait series by photographer Michael Joseph that celebrates the artistic, egalitarian, and subversive spirit of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Begun in 2018, the... Continue Reading →
Ahead of the publication of Rainbow Wales: Queer Icons Past and Present, author Emily Garside shares an exclusive extract with The Queer Review along with her approach to writing the book. Some books come from an "I need the world to know my nerdy opinions" urge (at least that’s how I’ve written books in the... Continue Reading →
Jason Haaf and Scooter LaForge have collaborated on a somewhat unclassifiable art book together. It's as gripping as it is gorgeous. Part sex memoir, part meditation, entirely collage, the prose dissects relationships, exes, hookups, obsessions, addictions at a brisk pace. Smartly, the artworks are hybrid themselves: a sad boy watercolor of a face half underwater... 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 →
Photographer Joee Vee's playful and sultry All Day I Dream About series focuses on "scrumptious men and a yearning for decadent New York City goodies". All Day I Dream About Cake. Photo credit: Joee Vee. All Day I Dream About Cake. Photo credit: Joee Vee. All Day I Dream About Cake, the second volume in... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ coming out or coming-of-age stories hardly seem groundbreaking these days, but sometimes, as the old saying goes, the devil is in the details. Such is the case with author/screenwriter/film critic Gary Goldstein’s third novel, Please Come To Boston, which on the surface may seem fairly paint-by-numbers, but excels because of the engaging characters, their... Continue Reading →
In July, to paraphrase a famous number from the musical theatre songbook, “The name on everybody’s lips is gonna be Faye!” Her highly anticipated documentary, Faye, debuts on Max July 13th, but any fans can get through that agonizing waiting period by picking up a copy of With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making Of An... Continue Reading →
Schitt’s Creek rewrote queer stories on television. From David's now iconic "the wine, not the label" line, to Patrick’s heartwarming coming out, through to the couple's "happy ending" wedding. In a new book, You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt's Creek and The Legacy Of Queer Television, The Queer Review contributor Emily Garside recalls classic moments... 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 →
"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 →
