The Powerhouse: International festival launching this fall at Powerhouse Arts (322 3rd Ave, Brooklyn), features large-scale performance works from around the world and includes a series of concerts by some of today’s most boundary-pushing musicians. Produced in a venue purpose-built for art and connection, the festival transforms the awe-inspiring Powerhouse Arts facility, a former power plant, into... 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 →
TIFF 2025: LGBTQ+ highlights at 50th Toronto International Film Festival
With the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) kicking off on Thursday, September 4th, running until Sunday, September 14th, we take a look at some of the LGBTQ+ highlights in the exciting anniversary lineup of new features, series and special events. The full 2025 TIFF program also includes performances from actors such... Continue Reading →
Sydney’s 12th annual Queer Screen Film Festival launches full lineup
Sydney's Queer Screen Film Festival returns for its 12th annual edition to inject some colour and heat into the wintry southern hemisphere nights. From August 27th to 31st, the festival will present a curated selection of new queer cinema from around the world, including 14 Australian premieres. “It is an exciting new chapter for Queer... Continue Reading →
The Aesop Queer Library 2025 is open in NYC, LA & Toronto June 26-29
Founded on a belief in the transformative power of queer storytelling, the Aesop Queer Library returns this weekend for its fifth edition, in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). To date, the Library has distributed over 100,000 books to readers around the world. This year, the Aesop Queer Library celebrates the vibrant vocabularies... Continue Reading →
The Queer Agenda: April 2025
Welcome to the April edition of The Queer Agenda, The Queer Review’s curated monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City and beyond. April 3-7 - NewFest Queering the Canon: So Obsessed - In-person at BAM, New York & streaming nationwide Courtesy of NewFest. NewFest and BAM's fifth annual retrospective screening series “Queering... Continue Reading →
The Queer Agenda: March 2025
Rabbit Rabbit. Welcome to the March (hare) edition of The Queer Agenda, The Queer Review’s curated monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City, Los Angeles, London and beyond. Stay queer and fierce out there. Please Hold (70 mins, 2024) by Alexandra Juhasz premieres at the Parkside Lounge, New York at 5pm on... Continue Reading →
The Queer Agenda: February 2025
Welcome to The Queer Review's new monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City, London, Sydney, Berlin, and beyond. Feb 4-15 - Isaac Mizrahi: I Know Everybody - Café Carlyle, New York Isaac Mizrahi returns for his ninth winter engagement at Café Carlyle with his signature blend of humor, storytelling, and song. Beyond... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ highlights at Sundance Film Festival 2025
The Sundance Film Festival returns to Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah for its 41st edition this week, with screenings running in-person from January 23rd to February 2nd. Over half the lineup will be available to audiences across the United States on-demand via the festival's online platform from January 30th to February 2nd, 2025.... Continue Reading →
Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival 2025 – in Sydney cinemas & on-demand across Australia – full lineup revealed
The complete lineup for Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival—running in Sydney cinemas February 13th - 27th, with highlights available to stream on-demand nationally in Australia from February 28th - March 10th—has just been announced. It marks the final edition of MGFF under the leadership of Festival Director Lisa Rose, who shares, "Come for the... Continue Reading →
