Media featuring LGBT content
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is Jane Schoenbrun’s third feature film. A filmmaker and a retired actress bond over their love of slashers. Schoenburn mocks and indulges the fans who overanalyze the genre’s politics. Her characters use the … Continue reading Spoil Sports: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
I told myself not to overbook my first Fringe. But FOMO and the temptation of hourly shows coaxed me to book 50+ performances. Once I learned to navigate the maze-like venues it became easier to fill my days. On the … Continue reading Edinburgh Fringe 2026 continued
The Edinburgh International Festival launched in 1947. Eight uninvited theatre companies performed on the Festival Fringe. This year the Fringe is hosting over 4,000 performers. Here are some highlights of my first weekend here. Dance Boys Don’t Dance. Marc Brew … Continue reading Edinburgh Fringe 2026
Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) is an affable slacker, fresh out of college. He takes a menial job at the studio of Erika Tracey (Olivia Wilde), a narcissistic artist. She immediately clocks him as a potential sub. Soon he’s having intense sex … Continue reading Movie Review: I Want Your Sex (2026)
Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper premiered on the page in 2016 and the screen in 2022. A generation of LGBTQ+ youth have grown up alongside Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring. The first two seasons balanced sweetness with darker topics of abuse and … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Heartstopper Forever (2026)
Gay (BL) anime has come a long way. For those that don’t know, the typical BL couple is a seme and a uke – roughly, a top and a bottom. The seme used to be the older one, and is … Continue reading LGBT Anime: Go for It, Nakamura-Kun!!
Gay teens are outed in a conservative town. Their parents drag them to a preacher who places a curse on them. They will be stalked by an entity. It takes the form of the one you desire most. If you … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Leviticus (2026)
My bedside table is piled high with books I want to read, some of which have been there for months, so…why do I find myself letting my fifth gay hockey romance so far this year jump the queue? Sports have … Continue reading LGBT+ Books: Thank You, I Prefer My Hockey Gay and Spicy
Took a trip to New York to catch some musical theatre before the Tony Awards. Here’s what I saw. Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody Book, music and lyrics by Dylan MarcAurele. Based on the novels of Rachel Reid and … Continue reading New York Theatre 2026
Trigger Warning: The following film discusses self-harm. A Single Man follows George (Colin Firth), a college professor teaching in Southern California. His long-time partner (Matthew Goode) has died in a car accident and he is inconsolable. As the day continues, … Continue reading LGBT Movies: A Single Man (2009)
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that most film love triangles could be solved by a threesome. Bed and Sofa (aka Tretia Meshchanskaia), a Russian film from 1927, would come close to this suggestion. A Russian housewife cheats on her … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Bed and Sofa (1927)
When Rocco (Andrea Amato) comes out, his liberal parents (Veronica Pivetti and Corrado Invernizzi) react poorly. He leaves town, in a rage, to see his favorite singer (Jacopo Brogioni) in concert. His helicopter mom pursues. A Little Lust (Né Giulietta, … Continue reading LGBT Movies: A Little Lust (2015)
Kink, consent, and queer self-acceptance create a complicated portrait of the relationship between a biker dom and a timid sub in Harry Lighton’s confident, accomplished feature debut Pillion. Taking place over one year, Lighton deftly brings us into the world … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Pillion (2025)
A timid scientist (Robert Pollock) is obsessed with the end of the world. He’s courted by a charismatic thief (Iain Rea) who lives in the here and now. Queer cinema was in a dark place in the 1980’s. The AIDS … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Beyond Gravity (1989)
Before Heated Rivalry we had 1925’s Battling Bruisers. A pair of boxers flirt in the middle of a match. Their fans and attendants are gay “nance” stereotypes who support the romance. The film both enforces and subverts the trope. Pansies … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Battling Bruisers (1925)
Adam est Ève (Adam is Eve) has all the trappings of a broad Hollywood farce but this 1954 film surprises by how thoughtfully and respectfully it treats it’s trans main character. This dichotomy becomes clear early on. In what seems … Continue reading LGBT Media: Adam est Ève (Adam Is Eve) (1954)
A lesbian couple finds an abandoned baby. Erin (Ali Liebert) wants to adopt it. Her wife Kelly (Katherine Barrell) does not. But she’ll be badgered and shamed into pretending she does. The Christmas Baby is the second Hallmark film to … Continue reading LGBT Media: The Christmas Baby (2025)
Two closeted hockey captains begin hooking up between matches. The press paints them as arch enemies. Bad boy Ilya Rozanov and boy scout Shane Hollander feel trapped by their public personas. As the years pass, and their stars rise, they … Continue reading LGBT Media: Heated Rivalry (2025)
Shinya Suzuki (Ryoma Takeuchi), a fiery Latin Dancer, trains with Shinya Sugiki (Keita Machida), an icy Ballroom Dancer. The upcoming 10 Dance competition requires they master each other’s techniques. 10 Dance is adapted from the manga by Satoh Inoue. Class … Continue reading LGBT Movies: 10 Dance (2025)
Miles Bennett is thrilled to start his medical internship at Everett Industries. When he goes to tell his girlfriend, he learns she’s cheating on him. He boasts he’s cheating too and kisses the person next to him… his new boss, Hunter … Continue reading LGBT Media: Straight Until He Kissed Me (2025)
An anxious grad student interviews a friend of the late activist Edward Carpenter. The student’s snarky boyfriend plans his birthday party. The characters discuss queer rights, age-gaps and open relationships. The film starts slowly and builds to a powerful finale. … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Only Connect (1979)
