Developed as a part of Pipeline Theatre Company’s PlayLab, non-binary writer and director Sam Max's darkly comic Coop opens Off-Off-Broadway tonight at Paradise Factory in the East Village. Produced by a queer and femme led creative team, the play stars Latinx, transmasculine actor Lio Mehiel as Avery, a girl who has been isolated from the... Continue Reading →
MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Weekend at Anthology Film Archives Nov 23-24th
This weekend in New York, MIX NYC presents a weekend of Queer Experimental Film Programming at Anthology Film Archives over two evenings. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23rd: Program One: 7:15-8:30pm “Within There Runs Blood” presented by Eve Oishi and Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz This program represents the vision of two curators whose careers span twenty-five years, beginning with a... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Trans Bodybuilding Documentary Man Made Director T Cooper
Author of seven novels including The Beaufort Diaries and Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes and the non-fiction book Real Man Adventures, T Cooper has had his writing appear in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Harper’s and The Guardian. A graduate of Columbia University, he is currently a professor... Continue Reading →
DOC NYC 2019 Film Review: I’m Gonna Make You Love Me ★★★★★
Karen Bernstein’s I’m Gonna Make You Love Me received its world premiere at DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival, in New York tonight. The deeply personal, artfully executed film weaves archive footage, photographs, classic movie clips and talking head interviews to paint an intimate portrait of Brian Belovitch. Assigned male at birth, Belovtich transitioned... Continue Reading →
NewFest 2019 Film Review: Drag Kids ★★★★
One defining, central fact of most queer lives is some measure of repression and/or trauma during adolescence, some essential hiding of the self that leaves many us grappling for much of the rest of our lives with when, how, to whom, and for what purpose we choose to disclose our various identities to the people... Continue Reading →
Tom of Finland Foundation in New York 19 – 22nd September at MOMA PS1 & No Bar
Our friends at the Tom of Finland Foundation are going to be in New York this weekend for the Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair from today Thursday 19th through Sunday 22nd September. This weekend’s New York Art Book Fair is at MOMA PS-1 at 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101. ToFF... Continue Reading →
New York Comic Con Queer Cabaret We The Heroes Ball – The Queer Review Meets event creator Akira AK
Ahead of this year’s NYCC, which comes to town 3rd - 6th October and is set to fill midtown with cosplayers, The Queer Review’s James Kleinmann sat down with Akira AK, creator of the LGBTQ+ cabaret event We The Heroes Ball to tell us more... We The Heroes Ball event poster. James Kleinmann: We The... Continue Reading →
TIFF 2019: LGBTQ+ Preview
With the 44th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opening on Thursday 5th September, The Queer Review takes a look at some of this year's LGBTQ+ related highlights taking in feature films, documentaries, shorts and animation. Recent years at TIFF have delivered award winning LGBTQ+ gems including BPM (Beats Per Minute), Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman, Call Me By... Continue Reading →
Labyrinth Out Under the Stars Screening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Join the Los Angeles LGBT Center for Out Under the Stars this Friday 16th August for a special screening of Labyrinth at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. This fun summer night, benefiting the Center’s programs and services, will feature amazing food and drink from Los Angeles vendors, DJ, celebrity guest appearances and more. Come early to... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Actor Mateo Oxley on Gay Footballer Play Target Man (King’s Head Theatre, London)
Mark Starling's new gay footballer themed play Target Man closes the King's Head Theatre's Queer Season in London later this month. Ahead of the production's limited six performance run, The Queer Review's James Kleinmann spoke with one of the play's lead actors Mateo Oxley about his role as England goalie Joel. Oxley also talks understudying... Continue Reading →
