What can we say, except sorry. As those who’ve visited Big Gay Picture Show in the past will know, there hasn’t been any new content on the site for the past 18 months or so. After six and a half years the site didn’t go out with a bang and there was barely a whimper. It just kind of stopped.
In my defence I can only say that life took over and the various pressures of existence meant that I needed to take a step back and recharge. Unfortunately, that recharge has taken longer than originally planned.
However, the site is now coming back. A few things will be different – there’ll probably be less news about non-LGBT titles and fewer posts in general – but the hope is that will allow us to be more focussed and offer a few new and different things. Of course, we’ll be keeping what has always been the backbone of the the site – news and reviews of LGBT-themed TV, movies, web series and more.
We’ll be gearing back up over the next few days, so if you have any thoughts about things you’d like to see, feel free to Contact Us. While we can only apologise for disappearing for 18 months, we’re happy to back and hope you’ll enjoy what we have to offer in the future.
“What would it be like to grow up in a society that said you cannot be who you are?” A provocative premise to derive from a sports documentary, or at least one ostensibly about sports, and not an entirely expected one. Yet, for many, such a thought lies at the heart of a life lived in fear and self-doubt. It is what Winter Olympic gold medal-winning ice skater John Curry created from these potentially self-destructive qualities that inspired Emmy-nominated director James Erskine to explore his life and career in The Ice King, a new documentary due for release in the UK on February 23rd.
It’s hard to believe that 2017 is coming to an end. Indeed, it’s somewhat hard to believe we managed to get through the year without the apocalypse happening, considering the likes of Trump and North Korea. Alongside the political tumult, there have been some great LGBT-films doing the rounds, and it’s time for us to round up what we think are our Top 10 of the year. There are certainly plenty of films below that are worth checking out.
Christmas is nearly upon us and while some people have already finished all of their Christmas shopping, others (such as me) are only just starting. So if you need a few ideas for what to give, we’ve pulled together a list of 10 things that should make someone very happy on Christmas day. Many of them are – as you’d expect for a site like this – linked to film, but some we just liked.
There are many calendars out there filled with hunky men in various states of undress. However, the one that arguably started the current vogue for sportsmen to get their kit off for a calendar is Dieux Du Stade.
It’s been a busy couple of years for Colton Haynes – as well as appearing in the likes of Teen Wolk, American Horror Story and Arrow, he’s been talking publicly about his battles with anxiety, coming out as gay and more recently getting engaged. In between all that he’s been very active on social media, offering up the kind of pics that have made his fans swoon.
It’s time for a major Hotties alert – as long as your tastes aren’t solely limited to barely legal, mega-skinny twinks and/or the types of guys who look they live in the gym (and haven’t seen a piece of body hair they didn’t feel the need to shave). A selection of pics from the 2018 meat Naked calendar have been released, and all we can say is – Woof!
Todrick Hall is known for his great, gay takes on everything from The Wizard Of Oz to Pitch Perfect. One thing you probably wouldn’t have expected to take on was this year’s racially tinged horror hit, Get Out. However that’s what he’s gone, with a trailer for a very ga sequel to the movie.
Sometimes you get a music video with a guest star or two, but Charli XCX’s vid for Boys is all guest stars all the time. There’s is a point to all these guys, which is to partially sexualise them in the way women so often are in music videos, and to do something that can’t be subverted by straight male eyes.
Scottish-born actor Sam Heughan is one of the best reasons to watch Outlander. In case you don’t know, the show period sci-fi about a Second World War nurse who gets thrown back in time to the 1940s, where she has to marry a young, Scottish warrior (played by Heughan) who is involved in the Jacobite risings. Their romance is complicated by the fact that she was already married in the 1940s.