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The brief saga of Madison Cawthorn has come to an end (for now) with his defeat in the Pennsylvania primary. His meteoric rise to the U.S. Congress made him…More

By Allen Ellenzweig

If not a rousing paean to the doughboys of the Somme or the gay poets who loved them, Benediction has a steady, stately tempo, several sharply etched performances, and a visual richness to counter the mournful nostalgia it imparts.

By Adam Odsess-Rubin

With the recent success of openly queer actors like Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (formerly MJ Rodriguez), Elliot Page, Billy Porter, Kirsten Stewart, and Ariana DeBose, now is the time to evolve our standards for representation on stage and screen.

By J. Ken Stuckey

This year’s Oscars were peppered with moments of diversity and inclusion. It’s too bad almost none of those moments will be remembered

By Charles Green
BASED ON Charles M. Blow’s 2015 memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which is about growing up poor and Black in Louisiana, as well as being sexually abused, Terence Blanchard’s emotionally charged opera opened the Met’s 2021–22 season … making it the first opera by a Black composer to appear at the Met.

By Richard M. Berrong

I had the pleasure of interviewing writer Brian Broome over two sessions  conducted on Zoom in December, 2021.

Trebor Healey interviews gay Ukrainian American filmmaker, Yuri Sivo, who has spent much of the last eight years in Kyiv.

By Allen Ellenzweig

In this thoughtful double character study, and in the film’s examination of the personal costs of a draconian penal system, Great Freedom delivers not a neat Hollywood ending but a painful reflection on how an unyielding social order thwarts the human spirit.

By Mizar Opula

Despite all the challenges facing LGBT rights advocacy in Kenya, it is not all gloom.