With Luca Guadagnino's intoxicating 1950s Mexico City-set feature Queer, based on the cult novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs, now playing in US theaters nationwide from A24, writer, actor, and comedian Drew Droege speaks exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann about taking on the role of "judgy drunk queen" John... Continue Reading →
While the Mother of Christmas might be, well, Mary, and the Queen of Christmas might be Mariah, proving themselves once more to be the undeniable Drag Queens of Christmas are Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme who are back with their seventh annual The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show. In the midst of a 33-city, 38-show tour... Continue Reading →
With the third and final season of the GLAAD-nominated, Dorian and Peabody Award-winning comedy series Somebody Somewhere, created by Paul Thureen and Hannah Bos, airing Sundays at 10:30pm ET/PT on HBO and available to stream on Max, Murray Hill who plays Fred, Jeff Hiller who plays Joel, and Tim Bagley who plays Brad speak with... Continue Reading →
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian’s anarchic experimental sci-fi documentary Doppelgängers³, which received its world premiere at SXSW and was nominated for Best Documentary at Frameline, had me questioning whether it was a parody at times. If the quote “microbes may have rights”, said with a completely straight face, doesn’t set your eyes rolling then welcome to an... Continue Reading →
Greyson Horst’s relationship dramedy Throuple is looking to play, but finds it difficult to balance the needs of all its players in its 90-minute running time. Brimming with directorial flare, terrific sound, and cinematography, the result is charmingly frustrating in its exploration of the emotional complexity of three-way love. Michael (Michael Doshier, who also wrote... Continue Reading →
Director Markus Stein’s searing documentary Baldiga – Unlocked Heart (Baldiga - Entsichertes Herz)—which world premiered at the 2024 Berlinale, went on to win the Mix Mexico Jury Award, and receives its Australian premiere at this month's Melbourne Queer Film Festival—is, in many ways, a familiarly tragic tale. A young queer artist finding their voice and... Continue Reading →
Actor-turned-filmmaker Brian J. Smith’s gently probing documentary, A House is Not a Disco, takes a loving look at the gay community on the famed Fire Island. Letting the locals do the talking, he unwraps the island’s mystique and issues with a nonjudgmental eye. Fire Island Pines is as much a self-perpetuating legend as it is... Continue Reading →
As the unsinkable Titanique continues its hit New York run, while simultaneously voyaging to Sydney, London, Toronto and Montreal, that show's award-winning co-creator and original star, Marla Mindelle, delivers another Off-Broadway musical theatre comedy boots the house down triumph with The Big Gay Jamboree at the Orpheum Theatre. With a book by Mindelle and Jonathan... Continue Reading →
Wedgies, published by Baron Books, documents the wedgie subculture through the lens of photographer Benjamin Fredrickson. This series showcases male subjects provocatively positioned and being given extreme or atomic wedgies (where underwear is pulled up above the subjects’ heads). To coincide with the publication of the photographer's first book, there will be a solo exhibition... Continue Reading →
An upcoming group photography exhibition at the Bob Mizer Foundation gallery in San Francisco, Progeny: New Visions of The Classical Form, features five contemporary photographers—Lucas Murnaghan, Steven Menendez, Walter Jenkel, Phil Dlab, and Gabriel Goldberg—whose work is inspired by the iconic physique photographer Bob Mizer. Each artist reinterprets Mizer's legacy, showcasing new visions of the... Continue Reading →
