Tag: gay film

Exclusive Interview: Sal Salandra wants his thread paintings to celebrate the joy of gay sex & encourage self-acceptance

80-year-old self-taught erotic artist Sal Salandra's vibrant needlepoint "thread paintings" pulsate with a playful carnal energy that unapologetically celebrates the bliss of gay sex in all its variety. Salandra's use of a medium that is typically associated with more neutral, traditionally domestic motifs to conjure kinetic scenes of fisting, orgies, and BDSM gives the work... Continue Reading →

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The Queer Agenda: November 2025

Welcome to the November edition of The Queer Agenda, The Queer Review’s curated monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City and beyond. Unidentified photographer, Gladys Bentley (1907-1960), ca. 1940. Silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper. Collection of the Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture. Continues through March 8,... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Prince Faggot star Mihir Kumar on Off-Broadway’s most talked about play of the year – “I’ve never felt such a strong personal attachment to something I was in”

Mihir Kumar is currently starring in one of New York's most talked about plays of the year—Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury—in an extended run at Studio Seaview through December 13th, 2025, following a sell-out world premiere stint at Playwrights Horizons this summer. The play, which marks Kumar's stunning Off-Broadway debut, sees... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: James Sweeney & Dylan O’Brien on their twisty & poignant Sundance Award-winning comedy drama Twinless

Actor and filmmaker James Sweeney follows his Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut feature, Straight Up, with the twisty and poignant comedy drama Twinless starring opposite Dylan O'Brien as young men who meet in a support group for bereaved twins and form an unlikely friendship. Roman (O'Brien) and Dennis (Sweeney) both search for solace and an identity... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Lurker filmmaker Alex Russell with stars Théodore Pellerin & Archie Madekwe

One of this year's buzziest American indies on the film festival circuit—and with good reason—is filmmaker Alex Russell's compelling feature debut, Lurker, which made its world premiere at Sundance. An Emmy-winner for the hit comedy series The Bear, the writer-director was inspired by his observations of the hierarchies that form in the music business and... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke on Honey Don’t! – “we wanted to fill the movie with as much queerness as possible”

Following last year's lesbian crime caper road movie starring Margaret Qualley, Drive-Away Dolls, Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s latest collaboration, Honey Don't—which also stars Qualley—queers the film noir by subverting the genre's gender norms in a delectably dark comedy. Stylishly shot by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Ari Wegner (The Power of the Dog), with enticing characters brilliantly... Continue Reading →

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