Exclusive Interview: Krishnanand Kelkar & Ashleigh Warren – the queer stars of Max’s rom-doc dating series Swiping America

If you've seen the Emmy, Peabody, and GLAAD Award-winning We're Here on HBO/Max, you'll already know that its creators Johnnie Ingram and Stephen Warren do reality television differently. They're not interested in contrived drama or arguments, or endless recapping, instead they cut to the emotional core of the stories they're telling, using the genre in... Continue Reading →

June 23, 2023 0

Sundance 2021 Film Review: Searchers ★★★

Filmmaker Pacho Velez, who made 2017's exceptional archive footage doc The Reagan Show, turns his camera on himself and a diverse cross-section of his fellow New Yorkers looking for dates online in Searchers. The film's effective visual conceit places us as viewers behind the screens that the subjects are looking at, as if we're curious... Continue Reading →

February 2, 2021 1

Book Review: I Know You Know Who I Am by Peter Kispert ★★★

New York writer Peter Kispert’s debut collection of short stories, I Know You Know Who I Am, is an interesting, frustrating and frankly disheartening look at gay life. Though unconnected, these stories and snippets paint a world of insecurity, dishonesty and dystopia covered in a gloss of language. Deception is the core theme running through... Continue Reading →

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