When I left my hometown for London as I was about to turn nineteen, I finally felt free enough to begin what would be a yearslong journey to fully accept myself and my queerness. After graduating there and making that city home, well into my twenties, every time I would make the return train journey... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Henry Boffin’s feature debut Strange Creatures forces two brothers, one pansexual and one straight, to confront their strained relationship on a road-trip into the Australian countryside. Boffin has assembled many of the collaborators from his TV sit-com Metro Sexual, including lead actor Riley Nottingham (also a producer on the film) for this domestic drama... Continue Reading →
The world of writer-director Veit Helmer’s Gondola is established early, with the incongruous sight of a coffin being transported through the air via a narrow cable car, or gondola, with the ends of the coffin sticking out at either side. That vision tells you everything you need to know about the kind of humour and... Continue Reading →
Hong Kong witer-director Ray Yeung’s latest feature, All Shall Be Well (從今以後), continues the filmmaker's streak of gentle dramas with a reminder that the global fight for the recognition of queer relationships and marriage equality is not over. All Shall Be Well begins by immersing us in the day-to-day life of lesbian couple Angie (a... Continue Reading →
Short narrative series Videoland throws us back to the late 1990s for a charm-filled coming-of-age tale that plays with queer representation on film, both coded and explicit. Hayley (Emmanuelle Mattana) is pretty sure she’s a lesbian. Working in a video store, she’s compiled a list of queer films to watch like Fried Green Tomatoes, Go... Continue Reading →
Writer-director-producer-co-editor Levan Akin's alluring fourth feature, Crossing, world premiered at the 2024 Berlinale where it won the Teddy jury prize, honouring the festival's best queer film, before going on to pick up more awards at Guadalajara, Sunny Bunny, and Sofia Pride. Following his 2019 gay coming-of-age drama And Then We Danced, and his recent directing... Continue Reading →
Let’s face it, practically every queer person in show biz either has a Faye Dunaway story or wishes they had one. Gay gossip columnist Billy Masters even has an infamous feature called “Fayewatch” in which he more often than not details sightings of her erratic behavior. Instead of honoring the career of a true Hollywood... Continue Reading →
Rising New York ballroom legend and trans icon Venus Xtravaganza was killed aged 23 in December 1988 and her murder remains unsolved. Venus has lived on as a gentle, captivating, playful, and vibrantly indelible light in Jennie Livingston's 1991 documentary Paris Is Burning, which featured Venus describing her life as it was and her dreams... Continue Reading →
Megan Stalter has emerged as a wholly unique comic presence with her viral “Hi Gay!” videos and her scene-stealing role as Kayla on Hacks. The latter, in particular, really has showed off her range with that raw, revealing scene in the 3rd season finale. Still, in everything I’ve seen, she’s cultivated a messy yet overly... Continue Reading →
In the delectably queer (in every sense of the word) new HBO comedy series Fantasmas, creator-writer-director-star Julio Torres (Los Espooskys, Problemista) plays a thirty-something creative named Julio Torres. He lives in a heightened, only-ever-so-slightly surreal version of New York City with his trusty robot assistant Bibo (voiced by Joe Rumrill), an aspiring actor eyeing human... Continue Reading →
