| Why writer Sean Donovan wanted more for Brendan Fraser’s gay character  By Sean Donovan  When Brendan Fraser’s character Charlie first appears in director Darren Aronofsky’s new film “The Whale,” he is masturbating to gay porn. Shown first as an anonymous shape sitting on a couch, Charlie is circled by the camera tentatively, as if

By Mikey Rox  Drawing a blank on what to give the gays and feys on your holiday shopping list? Consider these thoughtful presents picked exclusively for your LGBTQ+ friends and fam.  Nuzzie Weighted Blanket  Dasher and Dancer will have to pull double duty delivering hefty, chunky Nuzzies, one-of-a-kind breathable, thermoregulating and sustainable weighted blankets (in

5 LGBTQ+ comedians qualified to take Trevor Noah’s seat  By Sarah Bricker Hunt  Trevor Noah, longtime host of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” says he will leave the show after seven years, opening up an opportunity for a fresh voice to fill that influential role.   In a tumultuous political climate where LGBTQ+ issues are

By Chris Azzopardi  No matter what Republicans tell you, there’s never a bad time to get lost in a queer book. But now just happens to be a really good time to do so as parents pressure administrators to ban books with LGBTQ+ content from school classrooms and libraries. You can take action against these

The studio that brought us ‘Brokeback Mountain’ turns 20  By George Elkind  ‘Far From Heaven’ (2002)   For 20 years now, Focus Features has been distributing and funding queer-focused movies, marketing them successfully to a wide audience even early on. As a specialty distribution and production company responsible for works as disparate as “Beginners,” “Pariah” and

AIDS activist Peter Staley on his memoir ‘Never Silent’ and friend Dr. Fauci  By Lawrence Ferber  A key member of AIDS activist group ACT UP and a named plaintiff in the ongoing lawsuit against Gilead and other pharma companies for illegally extending the patent of PrEP and HIV medication tenofovir, Peter Staley will tell you

| And what’s up with that ridiculous montage?  By Lawrence Ferber  When the former star of “The Bachelor” and pro football player Colton Underwood came out on a “Good Morning America” interview in April 2021, there was one question interviewer Robin Roberts didn’t ask: What’s your type?   Fortunately, a fellow out athlete Gus Kenworthy presses

| A very queer vacay in historic Savannah By Lawrence Ferber The ghost of Kevin Spacey haunts this room. Actually, it’s the ghost of a rich, gay antiques dealer and preservationist, Jim Williams, whom Spacey portrayed in the 1997 film “Midnight In the Garden of Good And Evil,” although the latter seems somehow more likely

By Mikey Rox Stumped on what gifts to give your family, friends, and neighbors this year?Check this list then check it twice — because while you’ve been naughty, they’ve been nice. YuJet Surfer Electric JetboardIf ocean-based watersports scare the bejesus out of you — because sharks! — the YuJet Surfer Electronic Jetboard offers a compromise

By D’Anne Witkowski Finding LGBTQ+ books used to be a challenge. You couldn’t just Google “lesbian romance novels” or “books with trans characters.” But now, luckily, that’s no longer the case. Especially with Pride season in full swing. Whether a breezy-beach read is your thing, or you’re more of a heartfelt memoir kind of queer,