Steven Menendez shares a new study in male beauty portfolio with The Queer Review shot in October, 2025 in New York City. Male Beauty I featuring Randall Kohn. Photo credit: Steven Menendez. Steven Menendez: I created this series of images because I wanted to show the soft and tender side of male beauty. I was... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Photo Story: Farewell to Summer from Cherry Grove, Fire Island by Steven Menendez
As we bid farewell to Summer, photographer Steven Menendez shares this stunning new photo series with The Queer Review shot in August, 2025 in Cherry Grove, Fire Island. Cherry Grove, Fire Island - August 2025. Photo credit: Steven Menendez. Steven Menendez: In this photo essay, I set out to explore and celebrate the beauty of... Continue Reading →
Exclusive trailer reveal: queer comedy series Settle Down created by & starring Alexander Nunez
Exclusive trailer launch! Watch the trailer for queer comedy series Settle Down below ahead of the show's premiere on OUTtv and the OUTtv channels on Prime Video and AppleTV+ this Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 2025. The cast of Settle Down. Courtesy of Border2Border Entertainment. What happens when a matchmaker and podcast host who knows everything... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Robbie Williams recalls discovering a “magical world of safety & acceptance” playing gay clubs in 90s with Take That
As the remarkable and innovative Robbie Williams musical biopic Better Man expands to cinemas across the United States on Friday, January 10th, the 18 Brit Award-winning international pop superstar speaks exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann in Los Angeles. During the conversation, Williams shares his impressions of the gay clubs that he regularly... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Drew Droege on playing a “judgy drunk queen” opposite Daniel Craig in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer
With Luca Guadagnino's intoxicating 1950s Mexico City-set feature Queer, based on the cult novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs, now playing in US theaters nationwide from A24, writer, actor, and comedian Drew Droege speaks exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann about taking on the role of "judgy drunk queen" John... Continue Reading →
Queering Doctor Who – Russell T Davies’ return to the TARDIS
"Russell T Davies made Doctor Who Gay", read headlines in the mid-2000s. With every passing reference to queer folks, or with the tremendous pearl-clutching when Captain Jack Harkness arrived in the TARDIS, there was much outrage or elation at the ‘New Who’ being a little bit gayer…depending on where you fell on the tabloid outrage... Continue Reading →
Daniel Levy’s Good Grief addresses the complexities of loss for a queer audience
Writer-director Daniel Levy's Netflix film Good Grief is a testimony to the complexities of grief. More than that, it's also a reflection on the received wisdom of grieving and how we function beyond it, or more importantly, with it. Too often, we're told that grief is a cry-it-out at the funeral scene and a bounce back... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: playwright Alana Valentine on Sydney’s forgotten Black queer cabaret star Nellie Small
A forgotten corner of Sydney's entertainment history is being celebrated at this year's Sydney Festival, as the late Black queer cabaret sensation Nellie Small is brought back to the stage though Send For Nellie. The performer began her career in the 1920s before developing her vaudeville act as a drag king. She became so adored,... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Michael Griffiths on his Pet Shop Boys-themed cabaret show It’s A Sin – Songs of Love & Shame
The Pet Shop Boys have a key place in pop music through the 80s, 90s, and 00s. With hits like "Go West", "Left to My Own Devices", Rent", and "Absolutely Fabulous" becoming queer anthems, their synth-pop lit up gay club dancefloors and inspired generations of LGBTQ+ artists (with Russell T Davies' hit TV series taking... Continue Reading →
Audio Book Review: Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (Audible Original) ★★★★
Alison Bechdel’s beloved weekly comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, has been adapted into a series of audio plays on Audible with an all-star cast including Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia), Roberta Colindrez (A League of Their Own) and Roxane Gay (New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist), with narration by Jane Lynch (Glee). Set in... Continue Reading →
