Remember those nights, before most of us cut our cables, spent flipping through endless channels without ever settling on one show or movie? Appropriately enough, that is the sensation I had watching David Shadrack Smith's kinetic feature debut Public Access which world premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition. This... Continue Reading →
Masculinity, Unclothed: What Laid Bare Reveals When the Mask Drops
There’s something inherently destabilizing about a room full of naked men. Trust me, I know—as a trans man who frequents a clothing-forbidden Korean spa (for the spa water, not the schlongs)—a room of naked men is enough to disrupt the monolithic idea of what it is to be a man. Not because of sex, exactly,... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ highlights at Sundance Film Festival 2026
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival, opening Thursday, January 22nd, will mark its final edition in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, ahead of the festival's move to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Running in person through February 1st, select titles will also be available nationwide online from January 29th. This year's festival is the first... Continue Reading →
TV Review: The Boyfriend Season 2 ★★★★★
The Boyfriend is back (now he's back and things'll be fine) as Netflix’s Japanese gay reality dating series returns for an even stronger sophomore season. Second chances are the name of the game in this thoughtful, introspective, and charming series. The Boyfriend Season 2. Courtesy of Netflix. Eight eligible men between the ages of 20... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Plastique Tiara & Nymphia Wind on The Serpents Tour – “it’s important to us to showcase & uplift AAPI talent across America”
This weekend sees fellow Drag Race alum, Plastique Tiara and Nymphia Wind, launch The Serpents Tour across the United States. Inspired by the classic Asian folktale of the White Snake and Green Snake, the show follows two mystical serpents on a journey of love, adversity, and sisterhood. “The Serpents Tour is a chance to reimagine... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Cato Kusters on the real-life love story & marriage equality activism that inspired her debut feature Julian
Belgian filmmaker Cato Kusters makes her powerfully affecting feature debut with an adaptation of Fleur Pierets’ acclaimed 2019 book, Julian, a memoir of love, activism, and grief. In 2017, Fleur (Nina Meurisse) and her wife Julian P. Boom (Laurence Roothooft) launched 22 The Project, a performance art piece in which the couple planned to get... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) filmmaker Bretten Hannam – “Two-Spirit people have always been here & we’re not going anywhere”
Bretten Hannam is a Two-Spirit L’nu filmmaker living in Kespukwitk, Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), Canada where they were raised. They wrote and directed the short films, New Skin, Puppy, Deep End, and Elmiteskuatl, and the features North Mountain and Wildhood, which was one of the 2SLGBTQ+ highlights at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Hannam... Continue Reading →
Society of LGBTQ Critics reveals 2026 Dorian Film Award nominations – full list of nominees
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, the second largest entertainment journalists organization in the world, today announced the group’s 2026 Dorian Film Award nominations. Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another leads with nine nominations—including Film of the Year, Director of the Year, Screenplay, and acting honors for Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro, Sean... Continue Reading →
Emily Garside on Heated Rivalry & queer TV’s potential to create real-world change
Contains spoilers It’s been a moment since a TV show was almost unavoidable in both media discussions and memeification, but it’s currently impossible to miss "the gay hockey show" aka Heated Rivalry, writer-director-producer Jacob Tierney's adaptation of Rachel Reid’s Game Changer series of novels. Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander and Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke on his Cannes Award-winning A Useful Ghost – “I wanted to bring many dimensions of queer characters into the film”
Following its world premiere at Cannes, where it was nominated for the Queer Palm and won the Critics' Week Grand Prize, writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's startlingly original and delectably queer debut feature A Useful Ghost (Pee Chai Dai Ka) made its North American premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to be... Continue Reading →
