Festivals and Events Exhibitions Cultural Calendar FILMFESTIVALS Toronto, ON TQFF, March 14–17, and online thru April 14. Redwood City, CA Cinequest Film Festival, March 21–31. Tampa Bay, FL Transgender Film Festival, March 29–31. Boston,MA Wicked Queer LGBT Film Festival, April 5–14. Ft. Lauderdale, FL OUTshine Film Festival, April 18–28. St. Louis, MO Qfest, May 4–10. EVENTS GLAADMedia Awards Ceremony honors outstanding portrayals of LGBTQpeople in various media. March 14th in L.A. and May 11th in New York. Visit glaad.org/mediaawards. OutlantaCon Convention for LGBTQ+ sci-fi, pop-culture, & gaming communities. In Atlanta, March 22–24. Info at: outlantacon.org. Saints & Sinners Literary Festival Annual confab for LGBTQwriters, editors, etc. New Orleans, March 22–24. Visit: sasfest.org. LGBT+ College Conference For advisors, faculty, human resource professionals. At Middle Tennessee State U. in Muurfreesboro, TN, April 4–6. Visit: w1.mtsu.edu/mtlambda/LGBTplusCC.php LGBT Health Workforce Conf. Largest U.S. conf. for healthcare professionals will be held in NYC, May 2–4. For more info, search online for conf. name. Readers are invited to submit items at no charge. Must have relevance for a North American readership. Allow six weeks’lead time for any listing. E-mail: stephen.hemrick@GLReview.org Maestro(Bradley Cooper) Biopic is all about Leonard Bernstein’s marriage to Felicia Montealegre, but his attraction to men keeps invading their life together. Reviewed in this issue. Rotting in the Sun(Sebastián Silva) In this meta-movie, the director is the central character as he struggles to make it in the art world, gets high on ketamine, and hooks up with a hot media celeb. Saltburn(Emerald Fennell) Comic thriller about an Oxford student who’s drawn into the aristocratic world of a handsome classmate with whom he forms an intense, if not quite gay, relationship. San Francisco Cowboy (Hassan Zee) Dramedy finds a young cowboy from Nevada in San Fran looking for his long-lost mother and finding a hot guy who offers to help him out... Sebastian(Mikko Makela) Drama centers on a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London who begins a double life as a sex worker to research his debut novel. Strange Way of Life(Pedro Almodóvar) Drama/Western stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as two cowboys who reunite after 25 years apart, possibly to ride into the sunset (or not). Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum) Docu. features Will Ferrell and his best buddy of 30 years, recently out as a trans woman, as they embark on a journey across the U.S.A. My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) One-man show stars British actor Rob Madge as he revisits his years as a boy with a vivid imagination. At the Lyceum Theatre in NYC. Fire and Air Play by Terrence McNally delves into the tempestuous relationship of Sergei Diaghilev and Nijinsky as they shaped modern ballet. At Uptown Players in Dallas, March 7–17. Unpacking in P’town Play by Jewelle Gomez spotlights a 1959 Provincetown reunion of four former vaudevillians with lots of memories and ghosts. At the NCTC in San Francisco, March 1–31. The Brightest Thing In the World Romantic comedy about a freespirited barista and her efforts to win over a reserved, intellectual customer. Den Theatre in Chicago, March 14–April 13. Without You New musical based on a memoir in which a 22-yearold barista gets a part in the musical Rent, and everything changes all at once. At the BCA in Boston, April 2–14. FatHam Hamlet-inspired play begins with a young, gay Black man encountering the ghost of his dead father, who demands that his murder be avenged. At the Geffen Playhouse in L.A., March 27–April 28. Theater / Dance Feature Films All of Us Strangers (directed by Andrew Haigh) Drama with weird goings-on when a gay screenwriter returns to his childhood home, gets it on with a mysterious neighbor, and encounters his parents living as they did 30 years ago on the day of their demise. Drive Away Dolls (Ethan Coen) Action comedy finds recently single Jamie and frazzled Marian on the road to Tallahassee, where they cross paths with a group of inept criminals. Femme(am H. Freeman Ng Choon Ping) Thriller follows Jules, the victim of a brutual homophobic attack, who spots one of his attackers in a gay sauna, and his thoughts turn to revenge. Glitter&Doom(Tom Gustafson) Musical follows a musician and a carefree youth as they fall in love and have a summer romance to the music of the Indigo Girls. LiewithMe(Olivier Peyon) U.S. release of 2022 French drama tells of an author who returns to his hometown after 35 years and faces the memories of his first love—a 17-year-old male classmate. Butch Heroes Ria Brodell has done a deep dive into the history of female-assigned individuals who lived as male, and rendered them in witty miniatures that tell their larger-than-life stories. At the Fitchburg (MA) Art Museum thru June 2nd. The Plural of He The life and work of Colin Robinson (1961–2021), the Trinidadian-American poet, critic, and activist. At the Leslie Lohman Museum in NYC, March 15–July 21. I’m a thousand different people—Everyone is real The story of Candy Darling as revealed by new photos of this trans icon of the ’60s. At the Leslie Lohman in NYC, March 15–Jan. 5, 2025. Move Towards the Limits of Living Palm Springs Art Museum has announced an exhibt that will spotlight its permanent collection of LGBTQart. Dates to be announced. De Coded: Surviving the Law as a Sexual Deviant The lives of LGBT people in Chicago prior to Illinois’ decriminalization of sodomy in 1961. At the Gerbert/Hart Library in Chicago. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS –THE G&LR The Gay & Lesbian Reviewaccepts unsolicited manuscripts and proposals on all LGBT-related topics. Especially sought are proposals on the following themes for issues in development: • The Stars! Madonna, the Oscars, & Jane Lynch line up • The State of LGBT Rights: What’s next for the movement? • LGBT Science: New research on gender & sexual orientation Please e-mail your proposal to: richard.schneider@GLReview.org March–April 2024 47
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