Last week we found out who would be playing the rest of Queen opposite Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, Joe Mazello as John Deacon and Gwilym Lee as Brian May). Now another actor has joined the cast, playing a man who could play a key role in the script and end up as the movie’s ‘villain’.
Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game) will play Paul Prenter, according to Deadline. Prenter was a close friend (and probably former lover) of Freddie Mercury, who became his personal manager during the height of Queen’s fame. However, his reputation was forever sullied when in the late 80s he took payment from the British tabloids for details about Mercury’s personal life, such as telling them that two of Freddie’s former lovers had died of AIDS. Inevitable that added to growing media speculation that the singer also had the disease (something that wasn’t publicly known at the time). Afterwards the two men never spoke again.
It’s not known if the film will tell that part of the story though, as earlier versions of the script ended around the time of Queen’s triumphant performance at Live Aid. However, that was before Bryan Singer signed on to direct, so things may have changed.
Bohemian Rhapsody starts shooting soon, with plans for an awards season release at the end of 2018.
There’s been increasingly grumblings about how relentlessly straight the world of movies superheroes are – which take place in a universe where not even minor characters are LGBT. While things have been a little better on TV (in shows such as Arrow and Agents Of SHIELD), none of the central characters have been gay.
While a couple of gay-themed short films have been expanded into a feature-length version, most of them have remained on the independent/arty end of the spectrum. However, one 2005 LGBT short, Dare, became a more mainstream feature film in 2009 starring Emmy Rossum (Shameless US) and Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights). Not bad for a short that started life as a Columbia University film project.
On September 28th, WIll & Grace is returning the US TV screen for a new season. Plenty of people are excited – in fact there’s been enough interest that NBC has already expanded the original order from 12 to 16 new episodes, as well as commissioning a 
The world of democracy is quite fond of words that no one has ever heard of before. Many won’t have heard of a plebiscite, but they’re having one in Australia. More often called a referendum (in the UK at least), the plebiscite is being held as a non-binding postal vote Down Under, asking Aussies to vote for or against marriage equality in the country.
For a while now Rami Malek has been set to play Freddie Mercury is the planned biopic of the rock band Queen, which Bryan Singer is planning to direct. Now they’ve cast the rest of the band, who will be joining Malek in the film, which has now been titled Bohemian Rhapsody.
The 1994 short Trevor already has an impressive legacy. It was one of the first films centred on a gay character to win an Oscar (picking up Best Live Action Short Film), and also inspired the creation of The Trevor Project, The US’ leading crisis and suicide prevention organisation for young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) people.
The Wound got some good reviews at Sundance, and went on to win the Grand Jury Award at Outfest, along with various other gongs at film fesitvals. However, despite the praise heaped on the South African movie, there’s one group that’s more reticent about its wider the release – the people it’s about, the amaXhosa.
With the likes of Call Me By Your Name, God’s Own Country and Beach Rats, it was a particularly good year for gay-themed movies at Sundance. The last of those is now heading towards its US release, and to give us a feel for the flick, a new clip has been released (initially over at 
We haven’t seen many gay-themed films from The Philippines, but we should be getting one soon in the form of Four Days. It’s a tale of slow-burning desire and romance, and looks like it might be rather sweet.