Season Two of “Love, Victor”: Beyond Coming Out
The second season of Love Victor is now streaming on Hulu. In case you haven’t been camped out at your television during the…
‘Blackbird’ and ‘2 Black Boys’
In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that “religious precociousness is one of the unacknowledged features of queer childhood.” For LGBTQ kids…
Lil Nas X Starts a Satanic Panic
Last week was one of the biggest pop culture comebacks for Satan since the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the 1980s. Lil Nas X raised…
‘It’s a Sin’ and the Pandemic of Shame
Russell T. Davies is kind of like the British Ryan Murphy. He has the Midas touch, making hits as a writer and producer…
Coming Out while the World Is Coming Apart
Two groundbreaking coming-out films from Asia are now available on Netflix: Your Name Engraved Herein, from Taiwan, and Funny Boy, from Sri Lanka/Canada.…
Sister Ruth Strikes Again: FX Remakes ‘Black Narcissus’
The biggest question I had while watching the BBC/FX remake of Black Narcissus (Streaming on FX/Hulu) was, Who looked at the original 1947 film and thought, “We know what went wrong and we know how to fix it”?
‘The Boys in the Band’ and the Work of Queer Soul
“How could his beauty ever compare with my soul? And although I’ve never seen my soul, I understand from my mother’s Rabbi that…
‘Mucho mucho amor’ is about faith you can see and touch
Richard Lindsay and Ryan Parker have a conversation about ‘Mucho Mucho Amor’, a documentary about the flamboyant Puerto Rican TV astrologer Walter Mercado.…
