With the end of this challenging year in sight, we asked some friends of The Queer Review, including prominent creators, performers, artists, and activists to share the LGBTQ+ culture or events that sustained, stimulated, or inspired them in 2021. The eclectic list features two deserving mentions for a Spanish-language limited TV series that was released... Continue Reading →
Tom of Finland Foundation presents 2021 Awards at annual ToFF Art & CultureFestival
Earlier this month the Tom of Finland Foundation (ToFF) presented the 26th Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival - Tom of Finland 101: Raw Anatomy both in-person at Second Home in Los Angeles and virtually. The Online Viewing Room, featuring the work of over one hundred artists, continues until March 24th 2022 here. “The... Continue Reading →
Ashish Gupta’s NSFW queer photography pinup calendar will stir your enthusiasm for 2022
If you're searching for something that will stimulate your enthusiasm for the New Year and have you immediately standing to attention each morning in 2022, head to House of Voltaire, which has just released an exclusive limited edition A1 wall calendar by Ashish Gupta, where unapologetically NSFW queer images meet fine art photography. It's the... Continue Reading →
Inspired by Jonathan Larson’s legacy High School students from across the US unite to perform Louder Than Words from tick, tick…BOOM!
“Jonathan Larson is the composer who made me want to write", Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda told The Queer Review earlier this week at the New York premiere of his feature directorial debut tick, tick…BOOM! The film is an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionsed musical theatre as... Continue Reading →
Lee Laa Ray Guillory wins Queer|Art’s Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
New York's Queer|Art—founded in 2009 by filmmaker Ira Sachs to support a generation of LGBTQ+ artists that lost mentors to the AIDS Crisis of the 1980s—has just announced that Lee Laa Ray Guillory is the winner of the organization's second annual Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists. The New Orleans-based interdisciplinary artist will... Continue Reading →
Exclusive clip from Peacock’s supernatural drama series The Girl In The Woods featuring Misha Osherovich
With all eight episodes of the supernatural drama The Girl In The Woods premiering on Peacock today, The Queer Review is excited to share an exclusive clip from the series featuring non-binary actor Misha Osherovich who portrays non-binary character Nolan Frisk on the show. THE GIRL IN THE WOODS, The Guardian Episode 1. Misha Osherovich... Continue Reading →
HBO’s We’re Here sets the date for its season 2 return & debuts teaser trailer
Creators Stephen Warren and Johnnie Ingram's Emmy-nominated We're Here, one of our TV highlights of 2020, returns to HBO for an eight-episode second season on National Coming Out Day, Monday October 11th 2021 at 9pm ET / 10pm PT, with new episodes dropping weekly on HBO and streaming on HBO Max. Fresh from the All... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ entertainment critics announce 2021 Dorian TV award winners with Pose, It’s A Sin, Drag Race, Framing Britney Spears, & I May Destroy You all recognized & Mj Rodriguez honored as a Trailblazer
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced the winners of their Dorian TV Awards during tonight's Dorians TV Toast 2021 on Here TV and PlanetOut's YouTube channel, hosted by radio personality and LGBTQ activist Karel. For the third time, FX's groundbreaking series Pose took the society's award for Best TV Drama, while Best LGBTQ TV... Continue Reading →
Outfest LA 2021 reveals jury & audience award winners
Outfest has just announced the award winners of the 2021 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, which ran from August 13th—opening with the LA premiere of Everybody's Talking About Jamie—until August 22nd, closing with Fanny: The Right to Rock. Sunday's closing night gala also saw Outfest's annual honors bestowed upon Octavia Spencer, who received the... Continue Reading →
Elliot Page honored with 2021 Outfest Achievement Award “we don’t talk enough about how important representation is & how many lives it saves”
As the 39th annual Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival drew to a close with the LA premiere of Bobbi Jo Hart's rousing documentary feature Fanny: The Right To Rock, Oscar-nominee Elliot Page was honored by Outfest with the organization's 2021 Achievement Award, making him the first publicly identifying trans person in the history of... Continue Reading →