Ten years after filming season six of RuPaul's Drag Race, which she ultimately went on to win, the deliciously acerbic, certified drag superstar Bianca Del Rio is back on our screens (not that she ever left) in a new competition series, Drag Me To Dinner, created by gay power couple Neil Patrick Harris and David... Continue Reading →
With awards season now in full swing, GALECA: the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has just announced the list of nominees for its 14th annual Dorian Film Awards. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's breathtaking Everything Everywhere All at Once, featuring a touching storyline between a mother (Michelle Yeoh) and her queer daughter (Stephanie Hsu), leads... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe opens in US theaters on September 8th, 2023. When the poignant, defiantly hopeful sound of Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat kicked in early on in writer-director Aitch Alberto's Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe, I settled deep down into my seat at... Continue Reading →
While Closet Monster writer-director Stephen Dunn was developing his reimagined Queer As Folk, now streaming on Peacock, he flew to Manchester to meet with Russell T Davies, the creator of the original series. "One of the greatest gifts Russell gave me, aside from the title", Dunn shares with The Queer Review's James Kleinmann, "was after... Continue Reading →
On Wednesday, June 1st 2022 at 1pm, federal officials and LGBTQ+ activists will hoist the rainbow flag on the first Pride flagpole on federal land, in Christopher Park in the heart of the Stonewall National Monument in New York City's historic Greenwich village. This will be the first permanent rainbow flag to fly on federal... Continue Reading →
Tonight's episode of the Emmy-nominated We're Here, the fourth in season two, sees drag superstars Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka arrive in Selma, Alabama. It's a town that is of course known internationally for its prominent place in the US civil rights struggle partly because of the more than six hundred foot soldiers,... Continue Reading →
On the last full day of programming at Outfest LA 2021 on Saturday August 21st, the world's largest LGBTQ+ film festival centered trans, non-binary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming storytellers with its fifth annual Trans and Non-Binary Summit with a rich and exciting lineup of events at the Directors Guild of America. The event opened with Kieran... Continue Reading →
Filmmaker Todd Stephens returns to his hometown of Sandusky, following 1998's Edge of Seventeen and 2001's Gypsy 83, to complete his Ohio trilogy with Swan Song, "an instant queer classic" (TheQueer Review), now playing in US theaters. The bittersweet comedy which premiered at SWXW Online 2021, stars the legendary Udo Kier as Mister Pat, a... Continue Reading →
Taking viewers on a journey through LGBTQ+ history, politics, and everyday life in the USA from the 1950s up until the present day, the ambitious six-episode docuseries Pride, which premiered on FX on Friday night and has begun streaming on Hulu, builds into something powerful, stirring, and monumental. Each episode is helmed by a different... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Samuel Van Grinsven’s seductive, visually striking debut feature, Sequin in a Blue is the compelling story of Sequin (Conor Leach) a gay teenager exploring his burgeoning sexuality in the digital age, who is obsessed with an anonymous hookup app and the no-strings encounters he arranges through it. When he finds his way into the... Continue Reading →
