Tag: queer history

Exclusive Interview: Hugh Sheehan on his award-winning podcast Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7 – “we must never forget these queer histories”

In this politically regressive era in the United States and beyond, it is especially vital that LGBTQ+ history be recorded and shared, enabling us to find context, empowerment and guidance in the narratives of our queer and trans forebearers. Recognizing that necessity is composer, sound designer, writer and audio producer Hugh Sheehan, whose exquisitely crafted... Continue Reading →

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Theatre Review: The Monkeypox Gospel (Underbelly Cowgate) ★★★★

An unvarnished account of the experiences that led to his debut article for The New Yorker magazine, The Monkeypox Gospel is a compelling, enlightening and expertly recounted piece of podcast theatre. Photo credit: Michael Aiden In the summer of 2022, Ngofeen Mputubwele is conflicted about the global Monkeypox outbreak (later renamed MPox). He knows that, as... Continue Reading →

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Theatre Review: She’s Behind You (Traverse Theatre) ★★★★★

Written and performed by Johnny McKnight, and directed by John Tiffany, She's Behind You takes the audience behind the curtain of the panto dame, examining the real story that takes place beyond the greasepaint. Johnny McKnight as Dorothy Blawna-Gale. Photo credit: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Originally conceived as part of the Cameron Lectures (in association with... Continue Reading →

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Emmys 2024 FYC Exclusive Interview: Taylor Mac on his 24-Decade History of Popular Music “so much of queer culture has been erased – I wanted to make something so big it couldn’t be ignored”

In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Fellow Travelers stars Noah J. Ricketts & Jelani Alladin “this miniseries is a revolution”

Ron Nyswaner's exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction, Fellow Travelers, is a compelling and deeply moving epic miniseries that takes in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s and follows its repercussions in the lives of those directly affected through the following decades, taking in the post-Stonewall period of liberation in the 70s up to... Continue Reading →

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TV Review: Queerstralia ★★★★1/2

Comedian Zoë Coombs Marr’s irreverent look at Australia’s queer history, aptly titled Queerstralia, takes a big topic and makes it easy to digest over three episodes. Like a rollicking good dinner party conversation, it is provocative, hilarious, and completely non-linear. This isn’t your standard History Channel doco. “Each generation has its own story, but I’m... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s curator Ariel Goldberg “it’s about coming together to insist on preserving & activating trans & queer histories”

As we face an onslaught of regressive legislative attacks on LGBTQIA+ life, focused on trans rights, along with reproductive, and voting rights, book bans and restrictions on school curriculums, it can be empowering to look back at the organizing and methods of grassroots trans and queer resistance in previous decades. That was part of the... Continue Reading →

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