By Romeo San Vicente Think back to that flash of a moment in 2017’s live-action remake of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the one where it seemed that Gaston’s (Luke Evans) sidekick LeFou (Josh Gad) was, in effect, coming out as gay. We call it a flash because if you blinked you missed it –

By Romeo San Vicente Now that the 1980s are officially vintage and the subject of period films, a mini-wave of projects about the first decade of AIDS has taken hold: Yen Tan’s indie drama 1985, the documentary How To Survive a Plague, the French ACT-UP-themed drama BPM, and FX’s Pose incorporates HIV storylines into its

By Romeo San Vicente Beanie Feldstein, star of Booksmart and the super ambitious 20-year-long Richard Linklater-meets-Stephen Sondheim project Merrily We Roll Along, and who is also recently casually public about being queer, has another movie rolling our way. It’s called The Humans, and for all you non-theater people, here are the facts: it’s the Tony

By Romeo San Vicente Maybe you still watch Project Runway, maybe you don’t. But even if you’ve abandoned the long-running design competition, it’s quite likely you’re watching Netflix’s highly emotional Queer Eye. It’s also quite likely you have opinions about Tan France’s fashion choices for the people he helps on that show. And that kind

By Romeo San Vicente This is not a drill: Fun Home is going to be a movie. The autobiographical, bittersweet musical about a young lesbian’s coming-of-age in her family’s funeral-home business – one run by her difficult yet loving and deeply closeted father – will continue its evolution from Alison Bechdel-created graphic memoir to Tony

 By Romeo San Vicente Alan Ball, the man who created Six Feet Under and shepherded True Blood to television, has written and directed a new queer-themed road-trip film. It’s called Uncle Frank, it’s set in 1973, and it follows an 18yearold woman (Sophia Lillis, It) and her gay uncle (Paul Bettany) as they drive

By Romeo San Vicente Jodie’s back, fighting for justice. She’s part of the cast of Prisoner 760, playing a lawyer defending a man who was detained at Guantanamo Bay detention facility without charges for over a decade. The true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi (French actor Tahar Rahim, A Prophet), a man suspected of ties

By Romeo San Vicente Someone, somewhere, is keeping count of all the movies turned into Broadway musicals. We aren’t, though we see what’s going on, and therefore we will call 2020’s Mrs. Doubtfire the official umpteenth film-to-the-boards production Broadway has hosted to date. With early plans for a movie sequel scuttled after the untimely death

By Romeo San Vicente If this bit of news were a ballroom walk-off, the category would probably be “Fairy Godmother Realness,” and Billy Porter would take home the trophy. His character Pray to Tell, a ballroom competition MC who spends his non-shade hours tending and dispensing wisdom to a variety of queer street kids on