Fancy a hit of sub/dom-light romance blending an emotionally withholding Daddy-figure and some borderline cultural clichés thrown in? Grab hold of your speedos and dive into Cole McCade’s new book Just Like That. Summer Hemlock returns home (to Omen, Massachusetts) to take up the position of Teacher’s Assistant at his old boarding school, Albin Academy,... Continue Reading →
How do you define Hannah Gadsby’s comedy? It’s a question that has reared its head again and again since she hit international fame with Nanette, her 18-month tour and Netflix special, that deconstructed the building blocks of comedy to tackle the roots of trauma underneath. Is it theatre? Is it a monologue? Is it a... Continue Reading →
The setting of a school attended by strange children with a gay headmaster combined with a bureaucratic ministry looking after the supernatural may scream "Harry Potter”, but queer author TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea is more Miss Peregrine than Professor McGonagall, with a dash of gay romance and well, the Antichrist thrown... Continue Reading →
There are books you enjoy. There are books you feel enriched by. And there are books you have to stop reading because you’re laughing too much as you take photos of quotes and send them to four different WhatsApp groups. R Eric Thomas’s Here For It, is that kind of book. Known for his snappy... Continue Reading →
If you’re looking for a queer film that’ll totally take your mind off the modern world, we may have found the perfect one: Sebastiano Mauri’s Fairytale (Favola). This Italian surreal comedy, starring Filippo Timi based on his stage play, throws you into a skewed vision of 1950s America as Mrs Fairytale plays the perfect (and... Continue Reading →
Big Finish, producers of cult sci-fi audio dramas, and the BBC have released one of their lesbian-led Paternoster Gang stories for free on YouTube. The full-cast drama features the trio of characters from the BBC's queer-friendly hit-series Doctor Who, spun off into their own adventures. The Paternoster Gang are the sword-wielding Madame Vastra (a reptilian... Continue Reading →
Daphne Walters is finding life in Los Angeles tougher than she imagined. Her college roommate is giving her the cold shoulder, her boyfriend dumped her and she’s being hit on by skeevy L.A. douche-bags. One night she finds some peace and quiet in the swimming pool of the seemingly abandoned Rycroft Manor only to meet... Continue Reading →
If you need a pick-me-up at the moment you can do worse things than grab a copy of Yao Xiao’s collection of cartoons, Everything is Beautiful and I'm Not Afraid. Bringing together a selection of her serialised Baopu cartoons (a mix of old and new material), Everything is Beautiful and I'm Not Afraid charts Xiao’s... Continue Reading →
Is your Instagram feed full of your friends baking cakes, muffins, banana bread… endless variations of banana bread? No? Just me? Well okay, but there’s a weird connection between the LGBTQ+ community and the calming, homely, carb-inflused art of “Sugar - Butter - Flour” (to quote the musical Waitress). And there’s something equally warm and... Continue Reading →
Between 2017-19 Los Angeles comic creator Sina Grace penned the adventures of Marvel’s Iceman. Over the course of two volumes, 15 individual issues, Grace led Iceman (aka Bobby Drake) through the process of finally coming to terms with his sexuality, dating men and embracing who he really is - and becoming Marvel Comics' most high... Continue Reading →
