December may be focused on the holidays, but this month’s LGBTQ films available for streaming focus largely on gender issues and identity. Here is a rundown of five stylized non-holiday titles to watch.
In an exclusive interview, Bob the Drag Queen talks about the dangers they faced filming the new season.
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Elegance Bratton is an expert in fiction. Throughout his career in the U.S. Marine Corps, he learned how to pretend to be things he wasn’t.
Four months after Bloomberg indicated designer Tom Ford had enlisted Goldman Sachs for the potential sale of his eponymous brand, cosmetic giant Estée Lauder has announced it’ll acquire the latter in a deal valued at approximately US$2.8 billion (AU$4.15 billion) – the luxury industry’s largest in 2022.
A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.
Following a drunken encounter, two equally attached men from a cash strapped and divided gay rugby club unwittingly sleepwalk into an adulterous affair but must conceal their growing feelings or risk destroying the club they love.
Heartstopper actor Kit Connor returned to Twitter to slam those who he says have forced him to reveal he is bisexual.
We’ve made a habit of ending every month with a rundown of our favorite queer movie and TV trailers to hit the internet over the past few weeks.
Ciao and benvenuta to The White Lotus: Sicily, where the cast is hot, the sexual tension is high, and the appendages are (probably) prosthetic.
Henry Cavill is putting down his blades and moving on from “The Witcher” after three seasons as the leading man on the Netflix series.
How far we’ve come. By “we” I don’t necessarily mean all of us, but I do mean writer-director Nicholas Stoller (Bad Neighbours), a veteran of the bromance era in Hollywood comedy, when the working assumption was that nothing is funnier than straight dudes acting a little bit gay.
The Daniel Andrews-led Labor government in Victoria is promising its new law reforms will “change the way sexual violence is dealt with” in the state with no room for “inexcusable behaviour”.
Marlo, a gay love story set in 1950s conservative Australia, draws on library and archival research.
“It’s not like ‘This is a gay story about these guys being gay,'” Styles said. “It’s about love and about wasted time to me.”
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman has been brought to life with a new TV series adaptation for Netflix. Here’s the SciFiNow review…
Controversial Nigeria actor, Uche Maduagwu on Monday stirred reaction online after he claimed to be gay, adding that no one can stop him from being one.
Marvel has confirmed that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will introduce the queer character Aneka, played by none other than Michaela Coel.
Peter von Kant is a 2022 French drama film written and directed by François Ozon. It is a loose adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which he adapted into a film released in 1972, with the protagonist’s gender changed.
In news that has us immediately renewing our Showtime subscription, the network revealed today that Bridgerton‘s Jonathan Bailey will be joining the previously announced Matt Bomer in the upcoming historical fiction miniseries, Fellow Travelers.
Evans hopes “we get to a point where it is the norm, and that this doesn’t have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just the way it is.”
‘No one should be forced to come out’
It’s been a big few years for LGBTQ films. In 2016, Carol earned six Oscar nominations, and just a year later, for the first time in history, Moonlight became the first LGBTQ+-themed movie to win Best Picture.
To have watched all of this unfold, on the big screen, right in the middle of puberty, was simply not fair.
In what sounds like a bit of saucy gossip from Lady Whistledown’s latest newsletter, it’s been revealed that Jonathan Bailey held onto a special little (emphasis on the word “little”) souvenir from the set of Bridgerton‘s second season.
Last week we learned that the new Queer as Folk, which will be set in New Orleans, was partly inspired by the Pulse nightclub tragedy.
In They/Them, Kevin Bacon and Carrie Preston play a couple who runs Whistler Camp, a conversion therapy camp for LGBTQ teens, where a killer starts picking off victims.
Ncuti Gatwa, who is best known for his performance in Netflix’s “Sex Education,” will replace Jodie Whittaker as the next lead in “Doctor Who,” the BBC announced Sunday.
Disney restored the gay kiss between Lightyear character Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by actress Uzo Aduba) and another female character.
This week is Lesbian Visibility Week, a time to increase awareness of all LGBTIQ+ women and non binary people, as well as celebrate lesbian culture.
Marvel Studios has worked hard to prove its commitment to the inclusion of characters that represent all walks of life, especially people of color and those in the LGBTQIA+ community.
At first glance, Alice Oseman’s beautifully heartwarming Heartstopper which launches today on Netflix, based on her hit graphic novels, feels like a throwback to much-loved 90s British films about gay teens like Beautiful Thing and Get Real.
Streaming service Netflix is dealing with a sharp drop in subscribers by considering changes to its service that it has long resisted.
Schitt’s Creek star Noah Reid has slammed the “anti-human” rise in anti-LGBT+ legislation across the Americas.
Is Thor bisexual? Marvel fans are living for the Thor and Peter Quill scene in new Love and Thunder teaser trailer.
(CNN)Actor Ezra Miller, who stars in the upcoming DC film “The Flash,” was arrested Tuesday on the island of Hawaii for the second time this year.
Warner Brothers accepted China’s request to remove a gay romance from the new Harry Potter universe film.
John Cameron Mitchell, creator of Hedwig And The Angry Inch, has casually come out as non-binary in a recent interview.
William Hurt, actor known for ‘Body Heat’ and ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ dies.
Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang Star in a Jane Austen-Inspired Gay Rom-Com.
Andy Warhol has always been an enigma, but that’s part of the charm. But the new Netflix series The Andy Warhol Diaries sets out to illuminate the man behind the mystery through interviews with friends, collaborators, fans, and by means of his own words from his diaries.
Cover pic: ‘Die Boy van George’ designed by Nicholas de Klerk was banned in 1985!
LGBT people, gender fluidity, feminism and female sexuality are increasingly in the sights of China’s censors as much as political dissent.
Long before RuPaul made drag queens into celebrities, Harvey Fierstein made them visible. His Broadway debut was as the playwright and star of “Torch Song Trilogy,” about a gay drag performer in search of love and acceptance.
“It’s only looking back you realise that was really special. To have over 30 people in one year group identifying somewhere on the spectrum in this tiny town”.
The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA) unveiled on Tuesday its 2022 Dorian Award nominations, which recognize the best in mainstream and independent movies. Winners will be revealed March 17.
Good news: more and more characters in TV series are part of the LGBTQ community.
Amazing progress but ‘issues still remain’ for LGBTQ actors in Hollywood, says George Takei.
Ben Whishaw’s role in This Is Going To Hurt made him reflect on the “blatant homophobia” he faced as a young, gay man.
Mysterious Ways tells the story of a vicar who decides to have a wedding with his Samoan boyfriend, Jason. A church marriage for gay Anglicans is prohibited. God is forced to step in.
On Thursday, HBO Max subscribers were treated to the seventh episode of Peacemaker, the penultimate installment of the series’ first (but hopefully not last) season.
Badhaai Do is a complete family entertainer that also bravely addresses a social issue
The US version is about to rebooted, but I’m not sure we need a new version when the original is still so educational.
Excitement was palpable in the packed out auditorium of the New Theatre Oxford as the crowd waited in anticipation for The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Series Two Tour to start.
In 1971, director Roy Ward Baker adapted Robert Louis Stevenson’s legendary 1886 novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” with a gender subversion twist, giving the world the queer horror classic, “Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.”
Nyle DiMarco is booking a trip to the Big Easy. The actor will appear in Peacock’s upcoming Queer as Folk reimagining as a charming grad student, TVLine has learned exclusively.
For Valentine’s Day, Pride Month or any other time of the year, it’s always good to know where you can find great romantic movies that celebrate love, LGBTQ+ style.
A gay Bollywood’s director has blasted the Indian government’s decision to ban his film about a gay army officer.
From a sapphic alien thriller to the new Sally Rooney adaptation, here’s some of the most anticipated queer content coming to our screens this year.
Because we desperately need something to look forward to right now
We’ll have to wait just a tiny bit longer for the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio.
“Try not to care what the world thinks about us. Because this is real for me.”
Netflix’ first Arabic original feature film, Perfect Strangers, has come under fire from conservatives across the Middle East due to a lead character being gay, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Transgender actor Ivory Aquino has joined the cast of Batgirl, marking a landmark moment for the DC Universe.
Starring Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood the film is an adaptation of the 1952 Japanese drama Ikiru.
Dozens of trans advocates, including Page and Wachowski, filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against Arkansas’s first-in-the-nation law.
The White Lotus star Lukas Gage sent the internet into a spin when he featured in a rimming scene on the hit show, and the actor wants to see way more anilingus on screens.
Netflix and Shondaland dropped the first look at eight new photos teasing what many different characters in the ton will be up to this season.
The record-breaking second season premiere of Euphoria comes in the wake of a provocative first season.
The breadth and diversity in backgrounds of queer people is unfortunately still not completely captured by characters in film & TV.
2022 is just underway, but this year is already shaping up to be one for the books in terms of queer cinema excellence.
Euphoria returned with a bang this week, as fans were once again treated to several scenes featuring full-frontal male nudity.
For her heartrending performance in the landmark series “Pose,” Michaela Jaé Rodriguez won her first Golden Globe — and made history.
Garfield, who’s previously spoken about his dissatisfaction with the Amazing Spider-Man movies, donned Spidey’s web-shooters once again in the MCU’s new Spider-Man action movie to the delight of fans across the world.
Anticipation for the debut of a new queer Marvel superhero has ramped up after Disney unveiled new merch celebrating the character’s LGBTQ+ identity.
December is all about the holidays, but for folks who want LGBTQ stories that are not holiday focused, there are a handful of new (and old) films to stream in the final month of the year.
There’s only so much room for inclusivity, tolerance, and diversity on the Left end of the spectrum.
Why wouldn’t queer fans feel connected to characters that made them feel included?
MOSCOW, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Russia is investigating Netflix (NFLX.O) after its public commissioner for protecting families accused the streaming company of violating Russian law on “gay propaganda”, the Vedomosti daily reported.
We seem to have been peeking a lot of peckers lately on streaming. Full frontal male nudity was once considered the most shocking thing that could be seen on film.
Some will make you laugh, others will make you cry. But, they are represent one of the darkest chapters in LGBTQ+ history and also show the resilience with which our community faced the terror of Aids.
Here are theatrical trailers for 27 mainstream and art-house films, presented chronologically from “Tea and Sympathy” to “Outrageous!”
“I’ll support anything that lets Jennifer Coolidge be Jennifer Coolidge at Jennifer Coolidge’s best.”
Kristen Stewart and her long-time girlfriend, screenwriter fiancée Dylan Meyer have announced their engagement. In an interview on The Howard Stern Show, Stewart explained that it was Meyer who popped the question, reports Elle.
“I’m sad for [those audiences]. And I’m proud of Marvel for refusing to cut those scenes out. I still don’t understand how we live in a world today where there’s still [people who] would not see the family Phastos has and the beauty of that relationship and that love. How anybody is angry about it, threatened by it, doesn’t approve or appreciate it is ignorant.”
Marvel Studios’ “Eternals” will not play in theaters in the Middle Eastern countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or Qatar. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film was supposed to debut in theaters in those countries on November 11, but when local censors presented Disney with a series of desired edits, the studio reportedly refused to comply.
A timely look back at gay shorts through the past few decades.
Like Brokeback Mountain before it, the drama is based on an acclaimed short story.
IMDB has removed the negative reviews while Rotten Tomatoes has banned anyone from “reviewing” a movie that hasn’t come out yet.
“We had our eleventh anniversary in October,” the actor and ex-Obama appointee revealed.
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base. #FirebirdMovie is directed by Peeter Rebane and stars Tom Prior, Diana Pozharskaya and Oleg Zagorodnii.
Marvel’s “Eternals” is poised to storm into theaters and make history on a variety of fronts — as the first MCU movie directed by an Oscar-winning filmmaker (Chloe Zhao, who won for directing “Nomadland” earlier in 2021), the MCU film with the longest running time other than “Avengers: Endgame” (per The Wrap), and perhaps most importantly as the first MCU movie to feature a superhero who identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Faraz Arif Ansari has a deeply personal relationship with food. After the queer nonbinary filmmaker’s boyfriend died in a “freak accident,” they came out to their mother, who, “overwhelmed,” responded by severing communication for over six months, Ansari recounts.
If Lawrence of Arabia director David Lean ever made a sci-fi movie, it would probably look a lot like Dune, possibly the most ambitious genre movie since Lord of the Rings.
Yesterday, queer and trans Netflix employees staged a walk out and held a rally protesting the streaming platform CEO’s remarks surrounding Dave Chappelle’s transphobic new special, “The Closer.”
Wonder Woman’s Lynda Carter is truly the hero that the LGBT+ community deserves after she came out swinging for the trans community on social media.
Daniel Craig reveals he prefers gay bars as he does not ‘get into fights’ in them and is ‘sick of the aggressive d*** swinging in hetero bars’.
“This is what HIV looks like now. This is what courage looks like now. This is what bravery looks like now. This is what activism looks like now.”
