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What We All Gain When We Cast Queer Actors in Queer Roles
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.
MoreQueer Layers at the Oscars
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
MoreCharles Blow’s Sexuality Sidestepped in Met Opera
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.
A Zoom Interview with novelist Brian Broome
By Richard M. Berrong
I had the pleasure of interviewing writer Brian Broome over two sessions conducted on Zoom in December, 2021.
MoreLike the Rest of Ukraine, the LGBT Community Has Turned Toward the West (A Zoom Interview)
Trebor Healey interviews gay Ukrainian American filmmaker, Yuri Sivo, who has spent much of the last eight years in Kyiv.
MoreReview: Great Freedom
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.
MoreChallenges and Opportunities for Equality in Kenya
By Mizar Opula
Despite all the challenges facing LGBT rights advocacy in Kenya, it is not all gloom.
MoreAndrew Hahn Discusses God’s Boy
By PK Erikkson
I’m not mad at God. I don’t hate him. I think white evangelicals have a very wrong idea of the God that I knew, and I hope they go away forever.
MoreBMOP Anniversary Concert Honors Larry Phillips
By Richard Schneider
On Friday, February 18th, there will be a concert at Symphony Hall in Boston that has special significance for The G&LR. The concert will be performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and will be dedicated to Larry Phillips …
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