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 →
Theatre Review: A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, New York) ★★★★★
Before the lights go down at the Lyceum Theatre, a recorded announcement by A Strange Loop's Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, composer and lyricist—Michael R. Jackson—politely reminds us to keep our masks on and to switch off or silence our mobile devices. Theatre etiquette which he says, as a former usher, he finds particularly irksome when ignored.... Continue Reading →
NYC drag queen Robyn Banks launches Black & Boujee a variety show of POC talent Feb 27th at Hush
As Black History month draws to a close, New York drag queen Robyn Banks looks to the future with the launch of a new variety show for POC talent, Black & Boujee, at Hush in Hell’s Kitchen on Sunday, February 27th at 7pm. Hosted by Banks and fellow drag artist Lola Michele-Kiki, the show will... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Camp Morning Wood – A very Naked Musical (Asylum Theatre, New York) ★★★
Camp Morning Wood: A very Naked Musical, which opened Off-Broadway on Friday night at New York's Asylum Theatre, lives up to its title, and then some. It's camper than a row of tents and joyously body-positive, with a nearly continuous display of male nudity from the fearless and fully committed ensemble cast who seem just... Continue Reading →
Bright Light Bright Light releases ‘This Was My House’ Single & Video
Bright Light Bright Light’s (Rod Thomas) new single and video, directed by Tyler Jensen, This Was My House are wildly prescient during our current quarantined global existence. Scenes of Rod (and his strategically placed disco ball) in his apartment juxtapose with a veritable rainbow of out-of-doors’ liberation scenes culminating in some very ‘non-social distancing’ dancing... Continue Reading →
Film Review: The Queen (4K Restored) ★★★★
Leave the dressing room antics of RuPaul's Drag Race behind and step back in time to 1967 and the lead up to the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant in the largely forgotten documentary The Queen, restored and re-released in New York this week, with other US cities to follow. Originally released to rave reviews in New... Continue Reading →