In the last few years drag queens have never been as visible or more divisive. They are attacked by certain parts of the trans* community, as well as gay men who feel they belong to a past era when gay visibility was largely trapped in the camper end of the spectrum.
Nevertheless, there’s been a resurgence in interest in the artform, with many performers finding success and taking drag to new places that range from the arch and acerbic to full-on performance art. Indeed, despite the fact some don’t like them, drag artists have become one of the most interesting and challenging parts of the LGBT community, in a very post-modern way.
This Is Drag is a 60-minute Canadian documentary which takes ‘an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at performance, glamor, fame, family, love and sacrifice as some of the world’s most renowned drag queens come together for World Pride in Toronto. Starring Bianca Del Rio, Adore Delano, Courtney Act, Darienne Lake, Alyssa Edwards, Shangela.’
The trailer for the doc has been released and you can take a look at it below. [Read more…]
After a whole host of new adventures released over the last few weeks, the third season of Old Dogs & New Tricks comes to an end with its final episode, ‘Homo For The Holidays’. As the titles suggests, it’s set on Christmas day.
Writers tend to be split into two camps – those who don’t mind others taking their creations and spinning them into their own fantasies and ideas in whatever direction they wish (within limits), and those who are very protective and get frustrated by other people’s ‘incorrect’ interpretations and extrapolations.
Australia is planning to take gay-inclusive TV shows to school with Subject To Change, which has released a trailer for the pilot episode, which will be the first of 13 promised 30-minute episodes.
There is a lot of good work going on in the world of LGBT film (and to be honest, a lot of rubbish too), but due to the fact it’s a bit of a niche area, far fewer people are aware of it than there ought to be. So in an effort to help shine a light of those movies that anyone interested in queer cinema really ought to check out, we’ve put together this Top 10 of 2014’s LGBT-themed movies.
Kevin Hart, Josh Gad and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting star in the wedding/bromance comedy The Wedding Ringer, which is hoping to keep up chuckling through the cold winter nights, and to get us in the mood, a new trailer has arrived.
Katherine Brooks had a great success a few years ago with Loving Annabelle, which found plenty of fans and won awards at both mainstream and LGBT film festivals, as well as becoming one of the highest grossing gay-themed films of all time. Now she’s returning with Confidential, which for the next couple of days is hoping to reach its extended $120,000 goal on 
Back in June, we posted the Pilot Episode of the web series People you Know, but if you wanted the rest of Season 1, Part 1, you had to pay. However as a bit of a festive gift – and for a very limited time – the other episode now available for free on the series’ webpage during the Christmas holidays. It’s only due to stay free for the next few days, so you’ll need to watch now!
Early in the new Season of Old Dogs & New Tricks the boys had their own Thanksgiving meal, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that it’s now time for an Old Dogs Christmas with episodes 6 and 7 – ‘Putting the X in X’mas’ and ‘All About Xmas Eve’