‘Please Baby Please’ star Cole Escola loves a good, wacky role and a sassy line  By Chris Azzopardi  On Cole Escola’s Instagram page, the 36-year-old nonbinary comedian and actor describes themself as “One of Grindr’s Fresh Faces.” That’s true, of course, on and off gay social apps. Escola, who continues their ascension in film and

| Bob the Drag Queen and Eureka, stars of HBO’s ‘Were Here,’ on promoting equality through drag  By Eve Kucharski  Glitz, glam and, oh, just the small matter of changing hearts and minds. That’s a tall order for anyone, and the basic setup of every episode of the HBO show “We’re Here.” But of course,

| ‘Spoiler Alert’ star Ben Aldridge came out in 2020. Now he’s the leading gay man in two big studio films.   By Chris Azzopardi  This is Ben Aldridge’s moment, and that’s no spoiler alert. The Los Angeles Times already made that call in a recent profile of the 37-year-old English actor, writing that Aldridge is

Acting legend looks back on her dear late friend as Willis’ inaugural Night of Wonders launches  By Chris Azzopardi  The “Classic Lily” tab on Lily Tomlin’s official website — noted as “the world’s only” — is, today, barely operational. It looks like it was created at the dawn of the internet and never updated.  The

The new film starring Cate Blanchett raptly observes its powerful lesbian lead — then asks what her power means   By George Elkind  In writer-director Todd Field’s latest film, “Tár,” there’s a sense of intoxication in play, an air of fascination in the treatment of his leading character as a kind of monument — albeit one

The ‘Desperate Housewives’ star uncouples from Neil Patrick Harris in a new Netflix series  By Chris Azzopardi  Tuc Watkins hasn’t just seen how gay relationships have evolved on television — he’s been a part of that evolution. On “Desperate Housewives,” Watkins portrayed one half of gay couple Bob and Lee, who became residents of Wisteria

The actor on ‘Uncoupled’ and his ‘digital dong’ in ‘Gone Girl’  By Chris Azzopardi  It wasn’t that it was hard, but when Neil Patrick Harris shot a scene for the new Netflix series “Uncoupled,” in which his character tries to snap just the right Grindr shots, it was a little… hairy.   It was “taking angles”

In ‘They/Them’, the ‘Footloose’ actor’s character has surprises in store for this camp’s new queer recruits  By Chris Azzopardi  Kevin Bacon is back at camp. Not Camp Crystal Lake, where the 64-year-old actor met his gruesome demise in the original 1980 horror classic “Friday the 13th.” But at the kind of camp that is a

Michael Cimino and George Sear on end of ‘Love, Victor’ and how their characters changed them  By Chris Azzopardi  For now, at least, it’s the end of “Venji.” Many watched Victor (Michael Cimino) and Benji (George Sear), the romantic heart of “Love, Victor,” to find a much-needed love rush amid pandemic weirdness. The series launched