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 →
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 →
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 →
Wedgies, published by Baron Books, documents the wedgie subculture through the lens of photographer Benjamin Fredrickson. This series showcases male subjects provocatively positioned and being given extreme or atomic wedgies (where underwear is pulled up above the subjects’ heads). To coincide with the publication of the photographer's first book, there will be a solo exhibition... Continue Reading →
An upcoming group photography exhibition at the Bob Mizer Foundation gallery in San Francisco, Progeny: New Visions of The Classical Form, features five contemporary photographers—Lucas Murnaghan, Steven Menendez, Walter Jenkel, Phil Dlab, and Gabriel Goldberg—whose work is inspired by the iconic physique photographer Bob Mizer. Each artist reinterprets Mizer's legacy, showcasing new visions of the... Continue Reading →
The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opens this Thursday, September 5th with the world premiere of David Gordon Green’s fish-out-of-water comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller, while Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut, Australian-set teen musical comedy The Deb, will world premiere as the official closing nighter on Saturday, September 14th ahead of the... Continue Reading →
As Sydney emerges from a surprisingly chilly Australian winter, the 11th Annual Queer Screen Film Festival is here to kickstart spring with its lineup of 35 feature films from across the globe. From August 28th to September 1st, the 2024 edition of Queer Screen will celebrate LGBTQIA+ stories on screen in Sydney, before going on-demand... Continue Reading →
In their new book, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema, critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay examine how trans themes and trans people have evolved on screen over the past 60-plus years. In an upcoming screening series running at New York's Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)... Continue Reading →
Obie award-winning performer James Jackson, Jr.—whose recent stage credits include Michael R. Jackson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop on Broadway and Off-Broadway's White Girl in Danger—will celebrate the start of Pride Month in style with a two-night stint at East Village mainstay Pangea. Jackson has graced the stages of Radio City Music... Continue Reading →
The 23rd annual Tribeca Festival launches on Wednesday, June 5th with the world premiere of Trish Dalton and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, exploring the fashion designer's life and cultural impact. Running in venues across New York City until June 16th, the 2024 edition of the festival once again coincides with Pride... Continue Reading →
