Or maybe just call Anne Hathaway “Mother Mary,” her role in the film of the same name from acclaimed director David Lowery (“The Green Knight”). It’s the story of a queer relationship between a pop star and a fashion designer, ...
It’s time, really, for the drag kings to get their own reality competition, now that “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has become an institution and rite of passage for many drag queens who want to step up to the next level of ...
Queers who haven’t watched “Bridgerton” or “Fellow Travelers” are getting what may be their first look at gay actor Jonathan Bailey in “Wicked,” as the man who’s winning the hearts of both Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. Of course, Christmas ...
Jinkx Monsoon already made her Broadway debut in “Chicago” in 2023, and now they want her back there for a reimagined “Pirates of Penzance.” The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” legend will hit the boards in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” alongside “Frazier” ...
“Star Trek” legend George Takei does not currently have a new film or television series or play or voice role for a video game or an animated project in the works, and it’s because the 87-year-old actor, who is constantly ...
Any Jodie Foster fan worth the name knows that the queen speaks French fluently, has appeared in French films, and even released pop singles in that country when she was a teenager. Now, we don’t know if Rebecca Zlotowski’s (“Other ...
Back in the day we had Aaron Spelling TV shows everywhere you turned — “The Love Boat,” “Dynasty,” dozens of others familiar and forgotten. Today we have Ryan Murphy. Is it on TV? Well, then, Ryan Murphy did it. And ...
Queen Latifah is heading up a biopic about herself, via her production company Flavor Unit Entertainment. And she’ll have collaborators in Westbrook Studios, which is another way of saying Will Smith will co-produce (appropriate, since he began his career in ...
“On Swift Horses,” the new dramatic feature from director Daniel Minahan (“Fellow Travelers”) and screenwriter Bryce Kass (“Lizzie”), recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The period film, based on the novel by Shannon Pufahi, follows a family settling ...
You saw “Rocketman” and thought, “OK, well it all happened just like that.” And then someone told you that, no, that was a fantastical musical biopic and not documentary, and you learned the difference. But now here comes the actual ...
Spooky season is right around the corner, and if you’re old enough to remember Cher’s ’90s goth home furnishings company Sanctuary (catalogs for sale on eBay for the curious and/or devoted) you won’t be at all surprised to learn that ...
What happens when the zombie apocalypse targets queer club kids? The answer will be revealed in “Queens of the Dead,” from Tina Romero (daughter of legendary “Night of The Living Dead” filmmaker George Romero). Co-written by Romero and author Erin ...
The Abraham Lincoln documentary “Lover of Men” is coming soon to ask the question, “Was Abraham Lincoln queer?” Now, some historians are sure he wasn’t, in spite of the historical closet keeping queer public figures under deep cover until the ...
After making his most recent films for Netflix, acclaimed director Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”) will return to cinemas with Sony Pictures Classics and his frequent collaborator Ethan Hawke (the “Before” trilogy) for “Blue Moon.” Gay star of “Ripley” and “All of ...
Who never slows down? Dolly Parton, that’s who. Not content to disrupt the boxed cake mix industry and reintroduce vintage banana flavor to American palates, she’s finally taking her turn on Broadway by producing her own bio-musical, for which she’ll ...
Gay filmmaker Yen Tan’s indie dramas “Pit Stop” and “1985” have earned him a reputation for intimate, character-driven movies that aren’t afraid of being earnest. His latest, “All That We Love,” premiering this month at the Tribeca Film Festival, looks ...
We’ve gone over this before but it bears repeating: watch the TV series “Los Espookys” and this year’s indie film “Problemista” from our favorite gay weirdo Julio Torres, because when you’re finished with those delicious cultural products you’ll be ready ...
Not so long ago if you were a queer stand-up comic, you were more likely to be closeted than out and proud. But that was then, and today queer comedians are everywhere, no longer forced to keep quiet. Enter “Outstanding: ...
We were waiting for this moment: Elliot Page is back and ready for his close-up again. It’s been a while since we’ve seen him at the multiplex — after coming out as transgender in 2020, The “Umbrella Academy” star hasn’t ...
The history of the LGBTQ+ community and its relationship to the police is a fraught one, embedded with generations of trauma, injustice and punishment, from well before the Stonewall riots to the present day. And that’s the backdrop for the ...
The filmmaker’s name is Tamika Miller, a writing and directing veteran of episodic TV and commercials. She’s already got one indie feature, the critically well-regarded “Honor Student,” under her belt, and now she’s in pre-production on her next feature she’s ...
Kevin Williamson, the queer creator behind the “Scream” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer” franchises, has just signed a multi-project development deal with Universal Television. Among the series in the pipeline are an adaptation of the Ruth Ware ...
Gay actor Colman Domingo’s career is on fire right now. His upcoming comedy, “Drive Away Dolls,” hits theaters any moment, he just wowed audiences as Mister in the musical adaptation of “The Color Purple,” he’s enjoying his first career Best ...
Women’s sports power couple Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are about to be the toast of the Sundance Film Festival. Director Sarah Dowland’s documentary about Bird, “Sue Bird: In The Clutch” hits the fest in January and explores the 21-year-long ...
Jennifer Lopez will star in the new musical feature film “Kiss of the Spider Woman” from gay director Bill Condon (“Dreamgirls,” “Beauty and The Beast”), in what is the next step in a long journey from its original incarnation as ...
You knew a George Santos movie was coming. Every scandalous public figure is commemorated with their own ripped-from-the-headlines media content. And now that Santos has been expelled from Congress and Bowen Yang has made wonderful comedy as the bizarre queer ...
The holiday slasher genre is giving gory gifts all over this season, with the grindhouse-steeped “Thanksgiving” and “It’s a Wonderful Knife” turning the memory of a classic upside down. And the trend will continue over on streaming platform Shudder when ...
In 2013, New England Patriots team member Aaron Hernandez was arrested for — and in 2015 convicted of — the murder of football player Odin Lloyd, only to be found dead in prison from an apparent suicide in 2017. It ...
Want to go globe-trotting with “Queer Eye” star Antoni Porowski? You’ll be able to when his latest series with National Geographic, “No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski,” is cooked up for TV. Executive produced by King of The Yelling ...
John Cameron Mitchell joins Margaret Cho for ‘Ron.’ When “Will & Grace” star Leslie Jordan died, it left the fate of his latest project, “Ron.,” up in the air. Now the period piece — set in 1982 — has found ...
It’s the 1960s in preppy, repressed New England, and Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie, “Jojo Rabbit”) is working at a juvenile detention facility. And then along comes Rebecca (Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway), the newly hired and very charming counselor. Together, they ...
The Toronto International Film Festival got an in-depth look at the world of Montero Hill, aka Lil Nas X, with the Grammy Award-winning rapper, singer and songwriter’s documentary, “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero.” Shot over the course of his ...
Let there be no confusion regarding this point: “Scream” has always been queer to its core. Created by a gay writer, the great Kevin Williamson, and guided by his ideas for the first several films of the franchise, it has ...
The late, great Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, “Here We Are,” has set an off-Broadway launch date: Sept. 28. Its director is Tony Award winner for both “Take Me Out” and “Assassins,” Joe Mantello, and the book by David Ives (“The ...
Lady Gaga dropped a bomb on Instagram recently, letting all her fans know that she’s overseeing the edit of a concert film. “The Chromatica Ball,” taken from the Academy Award winner’s 2022 20-city North American concert tour — her first ...
Elliot Page has wrapped production in Canada on his next film, “Close to You,” his first starring role in a narrative feature since 2017’s remake of “Flatliners.” The Academy Award-nominated actor and star of TV’s “The Umbrella Academy” stars alongside ...
For Pride Month, Netflix delivers some queer history you might not have known about. A century ago, the Berlin night club Eldorado was a hub of the German city’s queer life, and people from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum gathered there ...
You can’t stop Billy Porter’s drive to do everything he sets his mind to. The “Pose” star and collaborator Dan McCabe (“Fruits of Thy Labor”) are going to adapt David Leeming’s book “James Baldwin: A Biography” as the basis for ...
A new version of Annie Proulx’s short story, “Brokeback Mountain,” is coming to London’s West End, and it will star BAFTA-nominated Mike Faist (he was Riff in Spielberg’s “West Side Story”) and Academy Award-nominated Lucas Hedges (“Manchester by the Sea”). ...
Kit Connor’s had quite a year. The 19-year-old British actor experienced the darker side of internet fandom when he found himself coming out as bisexual after overly entitled internet “fans” with no boundaries demanded that he declare his sexuality or ...
If you didn’t know who Paul Mescal was before his Academy Award nomination for the film “Aftersun,” or Andrew Scott before his turn as the Hot Priest in “Fleabag,” it’s safe to assume you’ve now had time to incorporate both ...
Set to debut at the Berlin International Film Festival, “Femme” looks to be the kind of satisfying queer thriller we won’t miss. The neo-noir features rising stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (“Candyman”) and George MacKay (“1917”) locked in an all-too-familiar battle. Stewart-Jarrett ...
Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese (“Golden Door,” “Once We Were Strangers”) has been open about being a transgender man for years now, but he has taken the opportunity of his new higher-profile, Penelope Cruz-starring film “L’immensità,” to remind the world of ...
From “Portrait of Jason” and “The Queen” in the late 1960s, to the landmark ’70s film “Word Is Out,” the documentary is where real queer stories usually get told first. It’s a tradition that continues to the present day, and ...
This one went a little under the radar, and that’s to be expected from M. Night Shyamalan, whose twist-filled movies reward going in fresh, but his latest, “Knock at The Cabin,” is among 2023’s first queer-themed film releases, and worth ...
Daniel Craig is back onscreen in Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” and just in case you haven’t paid attention to the finer details of this sequel, his detective character Benoit Blanc is now openly gay. So let’s ...
The big news is, of course, that “Dear Evan Hansen” star Ben Platt and “The Good Doctor” star Noah Galvin, friends for years, then a couple, have gotten engaged, so congratulations to them. But the two are also helping to ...
You’ve been treated to Gabrielle Union setting it on fire in the recently released queer drama, “The Inspection.” Meanwhile, as the activist stepmom to her transgender child, she’s also become a super ally of the LGBTQ+ community. Now she and ...
Riele Downs, who for six years starred on the popular Nickelodeon series “Henry Danger,” is all grown up now and is headlining the supernatural teen comedy “Darby and the Dead.” She plays a teenager who can see dead people and ...
Dan Levy’s feature directorial debut has a title, a cast, and a home at Netflix. The “Schitt’s Creek” Emmy winner has written “Good Grief” and will direct it for the streaming service as well as star, alongside “Loving” Oscar nominee ...