Following the success of the first issue earlier this year, The Little Black Gallery has just announced the publication of Volume 2 of its stunning fine art photography magazine dedicated to queer and gay photography, BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Here The Queer Review previews some of the work included in the magazine. Luiz © Xavier Samre.... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Shooting Midnight Cowboy – Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel ★★★★
I'm not going to call Midnight Cowboy a masterpiece, that is a word that gets thrown around too much (like luxury it has lost it has lost all meaning.) Midnight Cowboy is better than that. It is a perfect film. All of the elements: the script, the direction, the casting, the costumes, the cinematography, the... Continue Reading →
Benjamin Wolbergs on curating his New Queer Photography anthology
Benjamin Wolbergs, editor of the stunning new 300-page hardback photography anthology, New Queer Photography, offers us glimpse inside the book with an illustrated insight into the work of some of the 52 contemporary photographers included in the project, his own selection process, and the journey to publication. What exactly do we see in Matt Lambert’s... Continue Reading →
New York’s Leslie-Lohman reopens with major retrospective of lesbian photographer Laura Aguilar: Show & Tell
New York's Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art reopened earlier this month with two new exhibitions. Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, marks the first comprehensive retrospective of the late American photographer’s candid portrayals of herself, her friends and family, and LGBTQ+ and Latinx communities. The museum's second exhibition, Dissolution, features works created by the first two cohorts... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Zackary Drucker on co-directing HBO’s Elizabeth Carmichael docu-series The Lady and the Dale “I identify as a queer heretic & a freak, I’ve never wanted to pander to respectable society & Liz embodies that too”
Multimedia artist Zackary Drucker has performed and exhibited her work internationally at museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA. She is the Emmy-nominated producer of the docu-series This Is Me, which explores personal stories of trans experience, and... Continue Reading →
Tom of Finland Foundation’s 25th Art & Culture Festival: Plugged In – December 11-13th 2020
This weekend sees the Tom of Finland Foundation's (ToFF) annual celebration of queer art and artists go digital with their 25th Art & Culture Festival: Plugged In. As the centennial year of the groundbreaking and much-loved Finnish artist's birthday draws to a close, ToFF, which was founded in his honour 36 years ago by his... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Bronze Avery on his new folk-pop disco track Sea Salt “there’s a great sense of pride when other queer people are inspired to live their truths because I’m doing it in my music”
Yesterday saw the release of LA based queer singer-songwriter-producer Bronze Avery's latest single Sea Salt, featuring Miss Benny. It's a folky fall slow dance anthem to warm the soul with beautifully smooth and sultry vocals and emotional lyrics that cut deep. The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann had an exclusive chat with Bronze Avery about... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Dating Amber star Lola Petticrew “playing Amber helped me come to terms with my own sexuality – my sort of second coming out has been the most liberating thing”
Writer-director David Freyne's semi-autobiographical comedy Dating Amber, which recently delighted virtual audiences at both Toronto's Inside Out and New York's NewFest LGBTQ film festivals, focuses on the platonic love story between two queer teenagers, Eddie (played by Normal People's Fionn O'Shea) and Amber (rising star Lola Petticrew). Coming to terms with their own sexuality and... Continue Reading →
NewFest 2020 Film Review: Keith Haring: Street Art Boy ★★★★
Despite its relatively short running time of just 53 minutes, or perhaps because of it, director Ben Anthony's made-for-television documentary Keith Haring: Street Art Boy, which premiered at NewFest, manages to cover a lot of ground. In fact a parallel emerges of a prolific artist with an intense creative drive, and the film's style which,... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: gay erotic artist Sam Morris “people have these boundaries in their heads between pornography & self-expression & erotica & art”
Before OnlyFans enabled the monetisation of nudes and sexual encounters for the masses, gay erotic artist Sam Morris had already launched his own website, SamMorris.me, to share his conceptualised, documentary style portraits and videos without fear of social media censorship. Asking his followers to pay for what he’d previously been offering for free on Tumblr... Continue Reading →