Exclusive Interview: drag queen legend Jackie Beat & award-winning Tangerine actress Mya Taylor on their new movie Stage Mother

An audience favourite at January's Palm Springs International Film Festival, Thom Fitzgerald’s Stage Mother is in select US theatres and on demand from Friday August 21st. The uplifting comedy stars Oscar-nominee Jacki Weaver as a small town Texas choir director, Maybelline, who unexpectedly inherits her estranged son's struggling gay bar in San Francisco and decides... Continue Reading →

August 16, 2020 0

Exclusive Interview: Drag Race’s blessed & highly favoured Heidi N Closet “it’s amazing how the drag community has been able to adapt in these difficult times”

She may not have made it to tomorrow night's RuPaul's Drag Race season 12 grand finale, but she has undoubtedly won an indelible place in viewers' hearts, and is likely to snatch this year's Miss Congeniality title. Hailing from the small country town of Ramseur, North Carolina, Heidi added some new phrases to the Drag... Continue Reading →

May 28, 2020 1

Exclusive Interview: queer Navajo photographer Nate Lemuel featured in HBO’s We’re Here “I want to break every stigma that I can”

Tonight's episode of HBO's We're Here, the fourth in the series, sees the three queens, Eureka O'Hara, Shangela Laquifa Wadley and Bob the Drag Queen go all sci-fi meets Priscilla with their opening looks as they arrive in the New Mexico desert. They head to Farmington and Shiprock, and in one of the most impactful... Continue Reading →

May 14, 2020 0

Exclusive Interview: 1950s NYC drag queen doc P.S. Burn This Letter Please filmmakers Michael Seligman & Jennifer Tiexiera “gay history did not begin at Stonewall”

Due to world premiere at April's postponed Tribeca Film Festival, a stunning new documentary co-directed by Michael Seligman and Jennifer Tiexiera, P.S. Burn This Letter Please, looks back at the lives of several New York drag queens during the 1950s and 60s, and introduces us to some of them now in eighties and nineties with... Continue Reading →

May 11, 2020 0

Film Review: Tall Tales with True Queens ★★★1/2

Documentary short Tall Tales with True Queens was due to world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. It’s a sequin covered rhinestone gem of film co-directed, produced and shot by Kristina Budelis and Leandro Badalotti that invites us to sit comfortably and get a glimpse into the amazing world of Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH)... Continue Reading →

May 6, 2020 0

HBO’s We’re Here celebrates premiere with digital kiki Thurs April 23rd

HBO will celebrate the launch of its six episode unscripted series We're Here with a digital viewing party and free premiere screening on YouTube this Thursday April 23rd. In an effort to share the positivity and transformative powers of drag culture, Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara and Shangela Laquifa Wadley will host an uplifting... Continue Reading →

April 20, 2020 0

NewFest 2019 Film Review: Drag Kids ★★★★

One defining, central fact of most queer lives is some measure of repression and/or trauma during adolescence, some essential hiding of the self that leaves many us grappling for much of the rest of our lives with when, how, to whom, and for what purpose we choose to disclose our various identities to the people... Continue Reading →

October 26, 2019 1

Theatre Review: The View UpStairs (Soho Theatre, London) ★★★★

It was a sweltering 38+ degrees celsius (100+ fahrenheit) outside so I grabbed a last minute ticket to the Soho Theatre on the promise of air-conditioning and showtunes. Turns out the air-con was either not working, or was so weak it made no difference. So I wasn’t exactly excited to sit through an hour and... Continue Reading →

July 28, 2019 0

The Glory Takes Over National Theatre’s River Stage for London Pride

Our favourite East London queer nightspot, The Glory is back on the Southbank at The National Theatre's River Stage from tonight 5th July for the fourth year running, bringing a show-stopping and totally free Alternative Pride Weekender, featuring shows, comedy, parties and enough joy to put a smile on the face of even the grumpiest... Continue Reading →

July 5, 2019 0

Postcards from London: The Glory

At exactly 8:40, on a recent Wednesday evening, the first queen took to the stage of The Glory. For just over a month in the spring, London’s drag queens and queer performers of every ilk descend here once a week to show what they can do. The Glory is the perfect venue for this showdown.... Continue Reading →

May 25, 2019 0