‘The Inspection’ Film Review: Military Coming-of-Age Drama Feels Like an Instant Queer Classic

The Dublin Theatre Festival is fast approaching, starting on September 29 and running until October 16. The festival will showcase the finest of what the theatre industry has to offer and to get you in the mood, here’s a short list of three queer shows to look forward to at the festival. Manifesto Transpofàgico by […]

(CNN) -- It's water under the bridge, but there's a reason why Rosie O'Donnell never appeared on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show.During a recent appearance on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen," Cohen mentioned how much he loved the "Lebanese" moment O'Donnell had with DeGeneres on the former's talk show.Cohen was referencing DeGeneres' 1996 appearance on O'Donnell's daytime talk show in which the two playfully danced around speculation about DeGeneres being gay. She formally came out months later.Cohen then asked O'Donnell why she had never appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that ended its run in May after 19 seasons."After my show went off the air, and her's was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen and he said, 'Whatever happened to Rosie O'Donnell? Her show went down the tubes.

Richard Eyre’s writing debut has been a long time coming. The veteran director, recognised numerous times at the Olivier Awards (including with a lifetime achievement award), finally turned his hand to writing during the pandemic. The result is The Snail House, a two-hour political play which premiered earlier this week at the Hampstead Theatre. Eyre – the former artistic director of the National Theatre – also directs the show, which features Vincent Franklin in the lead role.

Freeform has finally launched one of their three unscripted series of the year, The Come Up.

Happily, the two remain very close friends. Marshall is still Phoebe's drummer, and they continue to write music together.

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Pop culture guru David Ferguson is back with a look at what promises to be an essential read – the queer romance anthology ‘Young Men In Love’. Reviewing an anthology is difficult as it is hard to fit in every individual story and every individual creator (so apologies in advance to creators I don’t mention) but […]

“Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act,” says the filmmaker Marlon Riggs in his 1989 documentary, “Tongues Untied.” For Riggs, who would die of complications from AIDS five years later, the film — made during the darkest days of the epidemic — had “a singular imperative: to shatter America’s brutalizing silence around matters of sexual and racial difference.” Just 55 minutes long, “Tongues Untied” is freewheeling yet frank, a mosaic of interviews and personal testimony by Riggs and readings of works by friends of his (the poet Essex Hemphill;¹ the writer Joseph Beam²) interspersed with other footage (of Eddie Murphy telling a homophobic joke;³ of Black gay men marching against AIDS). It’s funny about sex and romance in New York, unflinching about the rise of H.I.V.

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For the uninitiated, Heathers tells the story of the students at American high school Westerberg High. Early on, we’re introduced to protagonist Veronica Sawyer, who is struggling to get by until she does a favour for the Heathers – the popular trio of mean girls at the school. Suddenly Veronica is catapulted to popular status, and the protections that affords, but at what cost? Over the course of the show we see her struggle as she is forced to choose between former friends and, effectively, surviving high school.

Try to remember the kind of September … Everyone keeps asking me if the world is ending. I’m no prophet; however, here’s a trio of new mind-puzzlers y’all are welcome to ponder: 1. Quiet quitting; 2. Zaporizhzhia; 3. Functional extinction. Imminently, in this unkind September of ours, these three stumpers shall soon become catchall, household phrases. Quiet quitting: Like toadstools in autu

The cast of ‘Clue’ at Dallas Theater Center. (Courtesy photo by Imani Thomas)

From the looks of it,  Darren Barnet really isn’t timid!The Swedish/Japanese  Never Have I Ever actor posed  for Timid Magazine, giving  high drama  and pouty lip.

NewFest has announced the lineup for its New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, with a selection of documentaries and narrative features, U.S. and international films, and world premieres and anniversary screenings.The festival will run October 13-25 with both in-person and virtual screenings of more than 130 films from 23 countries.

When it comes to major gaming franchises, queer characters or stories are often still left out. Fortunately, the story is different with many smaller games from indie developers.

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NewFest said Thursday that HBO’s upcoming Mama’s Boy, the documentary about the life of Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, will be the opening-night film for the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival. The fest, which also announced its full lineup, kicks off its 34th edition October 13.

the real-life drama facing transgender kids in Texas and turned it into a playable narrative experience that they hope will change hearts and minds.Lookout Drive Games worked with trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming creators to create “Portrait of a Texas Family: A free slice of life game about love and resilience,” now available for free on Mac and PC.In the roughly 30-minute visual novel (kinda like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story), you play a parent of Sofia, a trans 14-year-old. Along with your partner Martín, your family must collect family keepsakes to place inside of a “safe folder” that will serve as proof of Sofia’s insistent gender identity and her supportive family, just in case the state’s child abuse investigators come calling.In the game, players can customize their character’s skin tone, hair length, body type, and pronouns.

EJ Panaligan editor NewFest, a New York-based LGBTQ+ film festival, has announced the full lineup for its 34th iteration. The 2022 edition will run from Oct. 13 to Oct. 25. With world, North American, U.S. and New York premieres for more than 130 films from 23 countries, the festival will be headlined by the world premiere of HBO documentary “Mama’s Boy” from Laurent Bouzereau as the opening night screening. Additionally, the festival will hold an advance screening for the Season 2 premiere of popular HBO series “The White Lotus.” Other high-profile screenings through the festival’s run include Michael Grandage’s love triangle film “My Policeman,” starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, and the stop-motion horror comedy “Wendell & Wild,” from writer-director Henry Selick. Jordan Peele co-writes, while also featuring in a lead voice role. Keegan-Michael Key inhabits the film’s other lead voice role, marking a “Key & Peele” reunion on the animated stage between the two longtime collaborators.

“Music is a galvanizing force,” the Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers says about the power of song to create communal experiences and inspire activism. Certainly, for many who’ve ever experienced an Indigo Girls show with the audience belting along to classics “Galileo,” “The Power of Two,” and the ultimate sing-along, “Closer to Fine,” the vibe is nothing short of a revival, and one that centers queer women.

The prestigious Cardiff-based Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Festival 2022 returns for the first in-person festival since 2019 with an incredible lineup of gorgeous new short films. Now in its 16th year, the Iris Prize aims to highlight LGBTQ+ stories through the medium of short films. Among this year’s filmmakers battling it out for the Best British […]

Toronto International Film Festival has pulled a film starring a trans Joker due to issues with the film’s rights.

Batman universe called The People’s Joker has been pulled from Toronto International Film Festival.The film, which reimagines the character of the Joker through a transgender origin story, had one public screening before the rest were cancelled over “rights issues”.A message on the TIFF ticketing page reads: “The filmmaker has withdrawn this film due to rights issues. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness teased their romance on Twitter, after years of speculation that they’re together.

Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness confirmed their romance on Twitter, after years of speculation that they’re together.

Reddit's r/TrueOffMyChest forum on Wednesday, the user who posted under the account u/throw_away_28124049, explained what had happened."My estranged family asked me for money," he wrote. "I haven't seen or talked to any of them for 23 years.

A suspect wanted in the stabbing death at a California gay bar, has been arrested.On September 9, Christopher Finley, 28, and Jacob Touchstone went out for a date night and nightcap at Mineshaft bar in Long Beach.An altercation happened between the couple and an unnamed man with a taser and, soon after, an altercation with Smalls, resulting in the couple being stabbed. Finely would pass away eight hours later at the hospital.Smalls is being charged with one count of murder, one count of attempted murder.In a statement, police said there is “no evidence this is a hate or bias-motivated incident.”The couple’s GoFund Me page reveals that the couple has been together since 2016.“From then on, there was never a Jake without a Chris,” the page states. “They had ups and they had downs and they even tried the whole time apart thing, without ever really leaving each others’ lives.

5-4 decision Wednesday evening the U.S. Supreme Court opted to not block a state court’s ruling ordering a faith-based private university to recognize an LGBTQ students’ organization, but the order is quite likely temporary.Yeshiva University, which has four campuses in New York City, was ordered by a state court to recognize Y.U.

Queer Eye‘s Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness announce they are “finally together.” But don’t believe everything you read…For six seasons, the stars have played up their flirtatious banter for the cameras—and even created a winking Instagram account dedicated to chronicling their romance. It’s a joke that everyone’s been in on, though now the stars want you to believe they’re taking things to the next level.“After years of joking about it, we’re finally together,” Porowski wrote in a tweet today that featured an image of him holding hands with co-star Van Ness.

The Simpsons showrunner Al Jean has said Lisa Simpson could be part of the LGBT+ community.While the character has previously had crushes on Nelson Muntz and became obsessed with the Corey Hotline in early seasons, a number of hints have led to speculation that Lisa could be queer.The most notable is in season 23 episode Holidays Of Future Passed, where a montage of pictures showing the family in the future depicts Lisa holding hands with two women on the couch – suggesting she might be in a polyamorous relationship.Speaking to Digital Spy, Jean welcomed the idea of Lisa being queer. “In my opinion, and this is just my opinion, that is definitely a possibility for Lisa’s life,” Jean said.

Lindsey Graham isn’t letting things like common decency and public opinion affect his quest to roll back abortion rights even further. But he’s going to have to get used to interactions like the one he just had with a protester.The anti-LGBTQ senator has launched a proposal for a nationwide ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, vowing to take up the issue in Congress if Republicans gain control of the House and Senate in November.

Sydney is alive this week with events for queer people. With album launches to celebrate, cabaret shows to delight in and dances to attend, here’s just some of what’s on the menu in queer Sydney.Indie pop star Rina Sawayama’s sophomore album Hold The Girl releases Friday following support from singles This Hell, Catch Me in the Air and Phantom.

A man has pleaded guilty to possession of the pistol that killed queer journalist Lyra McKee.Derry resident Niall Sheerin, 29, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing the firearm used to shoot and kill McKee during the 2019 riots in Derry, Northern Ireland, according to the Guardian.McKee had been working as an independent reporter covering the violence.Sheerin admitted to authorities that he had the gun from September 2018 until June 2020. McKee was shot dead on April 18, 2019, while reporting on the riots in the Creggan area of Derry.The pistol used in the shooting was later found abandoned in plastic bags behind a telephone pole, the BBC reports. Ballistics testing revealed the same gun was used in five separate shootings within the past two years, McKee’s being the latest.The New Irish Republican Army later took responsibility for McKee’s death, saying that they deployed their militia members in response to British forces in the area.

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website, writer-director-star Vera Drew asked audiences to “stay tuned and stay with me.”“I have no clue how today goes and my team wants me to say nothing of course so I’ll stay vague…but whatever happens in the next few hours, I want you to know…if you’ve been waiting and aching to watch our movie, ur going to get to soon,” she wrote on Twitter. “Stay tuned and stay with me.

Manori Ravindran International Editor The director of “The People’s Joker,” a queer coming-of-age movie set in the Batman universe, has pulled the movie from the Toronto International Film Festival over alleged “rights issues.” Helmed by Los Angeles-based director Vera Drew, the mixed-media movie follows an aspiring clown (played by Drew) struggling with her gender identity while dreaming of being cast in a TV sketch show among a cast of Jokers and Harlequins. An official synopsis from TIFF reads: “With comedy criminalized in Gotham City, the show is the only government-sanctioned space for funny people, but only those who will toe the party line. Disillusioned by a botched audition, Vera partners with a birdlike slacker to found their own alternative comedy troupe, attracting not only a rogues’ gallery of would-be comics, but also the ire of a fascistic caped crusader.”

My Policeman made its Toronto International Film Festival debut on 11 September and received lots of buzz due to its star-studded cast.

Vampire Academy stars Rhian Blundell and Mia McKenna-Bruce speak with GAY TIMES about the new series, playing LGBTQ+ roles and their characters “sexually charged” romance.

Out in Colombia, a gay-owned tour company that won the 2021 Impact Award from the IGLTA Foundation, in recognition of its dedication to responsible tourism development. We’ve teamed up with Out in Colombia and came up with a few ideas to inspire your next trip.A picturesque colonial port city on the Caribbean coast, Cartagena has long been a top draw for tourists, thanks to its historic walled downtown, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that dates to 1533.

Out actor David Dawson says he and fellow Brit pop singer Harry Styles promised to support each other during the sex scenes featured in the upcoming film My Policeman.Speaking with People and Entertainment Weekly at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival Monday, Dawson said he and Styles worked to reach a certain level of comfort before filming the scenes."Very quickly you have to get rid of any kind of notion of what you knew of the musician before and just deal with him as a fellow actor. And he makes that incredibly easy to do," Dawson, 40, said of Styles, 28.

 Saturday Night Live stalwart Kenan Thompson presided over a loose but fun show that spread the love, with major awards going out to Abbott Elementary, Squid Game, The White Lotus, Ted Lasso, and Succession, just to name a few.And, you know what? The whole evening was pretty queer! Below, we’ve assembled a list of the night’s gayest, can’t-miss moments, from LGBTQ winners and presenters, to the biggest gags, to the looks that we were living for.You can see a full list of the night’s winners on the official Emmys website. But re-live the best of the show below:The queer Hacks star arrived on stage to present the night’s second award, but let her co-star Jean Smart do all the talking.

Related: ‘Religious freedom’ now threatens PrEP coverage thanks to a Texas judgeAccording to the NY Daily News, Thompson, who has still been enjoying her annual salary of $210,900 while not hearing cases, is alleged to have said, “I hate these gay white men” and “being gay is an abomination to mankind.” She also allegedly referred to an openly gay judge as “fat now, from all of the evil of what he’s doing.”And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.On another occasion, she reportedly said, “I do not like Hispanic people. They have a deceitful trait that goes way back to biblical times.

Famed record producer William Orbit recently spoke to The Mirror about his falling out with Madonna after working together on her 2012 album MDNA.“She dives into everything with such gusto,” Orbit, who also worked with the singer on her 1998 album Ray of Light, said. “I was drinking too much and I said stupid things.

Ahead of their new play Absent the Wrong, staging as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2022, writer Dylan Coburn Gray told GCN about the process of making a show about adoption. I didn’t meet my birth grandmother until I was in my twenties. The thing I fixated on was that she had a tattoo, […]

The 2022 Emmys took place on the evening of Monday, September 12, with a number of queer favourites gracing the stage to collect their well-deserved statuettes. As usual, fans had a lot to say, so let’s dive straight into this list of highlights and reactions for the 74th edition of the awards ceremony. The White […]

Lizzo’s new reality TV series, Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, took home three of the six awards it was nominated for at this year’s Emmys.

Inua Ellams’ update of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Antigone has been about five years in the making; it has finally debuted at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park. Set in modern Britain, we are introduced to the titular Antigone (Zainab Hasan), a British Pakistani woman who has been working in a youth centre which has been forced to close due to cuts. Her uncle Creon (Tony Jayawardena) is the Home Secretary, although we are introduced to him while he is out campaigning, clearly set on becoming the next Prime Minister.

(CNN) -- What do a pub in London, a 113-year-old apartment building in New York City, a former mental hospital in Atlanta, a luxury resort in Hawaii, a sprawling office complex in New Jersey, and a mausoleum in one of the South's largest cemeteries have in common?On some of this year’s top Emmy-nominated shows, these places play roles as important as any character. And off-screen, they all have their own dramatic stories.Here’s a glimpse at the real-life locations behind some of TV’s most popular places, and what we learned talking with some of the people who know them best. A luxury resort that found new life during a pandemic lockdownThe hit Hulu series Only Murders In The Building stars (from left) Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez.The resort in The White Lotus features numerous beachfront amenities, jaw-dropping views of Hawaii's natural beauty, and brightly colored rooms that reflect the personalities of the characters staying in them.