UPDATE: Sandra Bernhard will return to Joe's pub for annual holiday shows in 2022. Bern It Down plays New York's City Winery on May 24th 2022 and Netflix Is A Joke Festival in Los Angeles on May 7th 2022 as part of the STAND OUT: AN LGBTQ+ CELEBRATION lineup at The Greek Theatre. A downtown New... Continue Reading →
The Queer Review meets the cast of Pose ahead of tonight’s final season premiere
Ahead of tonight's final season premiere of Pose on FX, The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann attended a virtual press conference with a legendary lineup of the show's key cast including Mj Rodriguez, Billy Porter, Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore, Hailie Sahar, Angel Bismark Curiel, Dyllón Burnside, Sandra Bernhard, Jason A. Rodriguez, plus series co-creator, executive... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: creative & fashion director Sam Ratelle “I’m excited for where the future of menswear is going”
Hailed by Vogue as “the most fabulous entrance in Met Gala history”, in May last year Billy Porter was carried on to the pink carpet by six shirtless Broadway hunks on a palanquin dressed as Cleopatra in a dazzling gold ensemble designed by The Blonds. Just three months earlier, Porter had shut down the red... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: HBO Max’s Legendary judge the Wonder Woman of Vogue Leiomy Maldonado “the balls started with trans women”
When HBO Max launched on May 27th, part of its opening day lineup was the first two episodes of the nine-part Max Original dance competition Legendary. Inspired by the world of ballroom, the show pits eight Houses against one another in weekly vogue battles in the search for a Legendary House. With a different theme... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Paris Is Burning director Jennie Livingston “I always felt that the balls were a kind of a church, a kind of ritual space”
To mark the thirtieth anniversary of Jennie Livingston's (they/them) landmark documentary Paris Is Burning, the Criterion Collection have issued the film on Blu-Ray for the first time in a stunning 2K digital restoration. Also available through Criterion on DVD, the new edition on both formats features over an hour of previously unseen outtakes, a new... Continue Reading →
TV Review: Pose Season 2 Finale – Episode 10 “In My Heels” ★★★★★
*N.B. May contain unintentional Pose Season 2 spoilers.*The Category is...Season 2 Finale Extravaganza! Brilliantly by directed Janet Mock, who made television history last season as the first trans woman of colour to write, direct and produce for a series, this marks the second episode Mock has directed this season, and its one the most satisfying.... Continue Reading →
The Category is…71st Emmy Award Nominations
The nominations for the 71st Emmy Awards were announced in Los Angeles this morning by Ken Jeong and D'Arcy Carden. HBO's Game of Thrones led with 32, the highest number of nominations for the same show in 2019, making it the second most nominated program in the Emmy Awards' 71 year history with a total... Continue Reading →