Gay fashion icon Tom Ford adapted Christopher Isherwood’s novel of the same name for his first film, and Colin Firth was nominated for an Oscar for playing the gay professor who tries to find happiness after his lover dies. Unfairly criticized for being too much about the 1960s art direction, the film is more than…
The singing, dancing, wise-cracking kids from McKinley High, including our favorite queers Kurt and Santana, are in New York for the national show choir championship, and arch diva Patti LuPone and out gay Broadway stars Jonathan Groff and Cheyenne Jackson guest. As with every episode of Glee, this will surely be a ridiculous mix of…
The documentary about Chastity Bono’s transformation into Chaz Bono, from woman to man, premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network May 10; if you missed it, then record it now. Chaz, the only child of Cher and Sonny Bono, went through gender reassignment in 2008, and he bravely documented his transition to help the world understand…
BBC America, starting at 12 a.m. PST, April 29, and going all day long While every American network will be devoting hours upon hours to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding (which includes parades, parties and an actual ceremony), the best coverage will certainly be the BBCs. The BBC knows how to cover a world…
While there were more than a few pro-gay demonstrations and protests before the Stonewall Riots in 1969, it was Stonewall that has become the symbolic beginning of the modern gay rights movement, and its anniversary is what Pride celebrations mark every year. If you don’t know the story already, or if you only think you…
Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, April 16, 1:15 p.m.: Sunset Boulevard and All About Eve came out the same year (1950) and neither Gloria Swanson nor Bette Davis won an Oscar for their iconic roles in these iconic films. No, that year Judy Holliday won the Best Actress Oscar for Born Yesterday, which is also notable for being…
Sunday, April 10, 3 p.m. on Turner Classic Movies Aside from being one of the best acted, juiciest and entertaining films ever made, 1958s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, based on Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, features both Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman at their most insanely attractive. It’s possible that no man was…
While some Joan Crawford fans might be appalled that someone would dare remake Mildred Pierce, the classic 1945 melodrama for which Crawford won her Oscar, when the remake is a total revision directed by the visionary gay director Todd Haynes and starring Kate Winslet, the greatest actress of her generation, I’ve just got to say,…
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Monday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. – 9p.m., Turner Classic Movies When I was a wee gay boy just out of the closet, an avuncular man who came out in the 1950s gave me a list of movies I had to see now that I was Capital G Gay. At…
