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'Cheer' Star Jerry Harris on Becoming a Gay Icon: 'I Want to Be Someone That’s Fearless'

'Cheer' Star Jerry Harris on Becoming a Gay Icon: 'I Want to Be Someone That’s Fearless' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Jerry Harris, the fan favorite of Netflix’s “Cheer,” can’t help thinking that his late mom is watching over him as he has become one of this year’s most beloved pop culture phenomenons. “I feel like she’s very, very happy and excited for everything that’s been going on, and she’s really loving it,” Harris, whose mother

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It's No Drag: The Past, Present, and Possibilities of Ballroom at ATX Television: Leiomy Maldonado and Dashaun Wesley from FX's Pose and HBO Max's Legendary are finally taking the spotlight

It's No Drag: The Past, Present, and Possibilities of Ballroom at ATX Television: Leiomy Maldonado and Dashaun Wesley from FX's Pose and HBO Max's Legendary are finally taking the spotlight | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Leiomy Maldonado and Dashaun Wesley from FX's Pose and HBO Max's Legendary are finally taking the spotlight

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In ‘Exciting Times,’ Echoes of Sally Rooney, but With a Queer Twist

In ‘Exciting Times,’ Echoes of Sally Rooney, but With a Queer Twist | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Naoise Dolan’s debut follows a young Irishwoman as she becomes involved in the lives of Hong Kong’s upper crust.

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Out Filmmaker Fiona Mackenzie Releases Modern Romantic Comedy “Tell Me I Love You”

Out Filmmaker Fiona Mackenzie Releases Modern Romantic Comedy “Tell Me I Love You” | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Modern Romantic Comedy “TELL ME I LOVE YOU” tells the story of 3 Malibu best friends, roommates and bandmates discovering their dreams and discovering love with a crazy plot to make some cash on the way, set to release on VOD and DVD June 2nd with special virtual screening event Q&As, courtesy of Vision Films.

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This Non-Binary Comedian Is Finding Humanity in the Pandemic

This Non-Binary Comedian Is Finding Humanity in the Pandemic | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Jes Tom is part of a new cadre of non-white queer comedians who are bringing a different perspective to the stage.

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Online Festival ‘We Are One’ Sets More Than 100 Films to Screen Free on YouTube

Online Festival ‘We Are One’ Sets More Than 100 Films to Screen Free on YouTube | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The festival is a collaboration between 21 different international film festivals, including Tribeca, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance, Venice, London and New York

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For This Lesbian Romance, World War II Is Just One Complication

For This Lesbian Romance, World War II Is Just One Complication | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Dola de Jong’s 1954 novel “The Tree and the Vine” is a portrait of two women dogged by issues too personal to be defined by political catastrophe.

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Taiwan’s LGBTQ Streamer GagaOOLala Launches Worldwide

Taiwan’s LGBTQ Streamer GagaOOLala Launches Worldwide | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

LGBTQ-focused streaming platform GagaOOLala officially launched worldwide Friday in all territories except for China and North Korea.  The streamer is backed by Taipei-based Portico Media, one of t…

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss Burgess: 'I’m the most boring of the rainbow of gay men'

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss Burgess: 'I’m the most boring of the rainbow of gay men' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The scene-stealing sitcom star on how Tina Fey rescued his career with a role in TV’s kookiest comedy, and what he’s really like behind the memes

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Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV

Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Most lesbian bars have vanished in recent decades — and that was before the pandemic. But three current TV shows offer their own fictional forms of wish fulfillment.

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Award-Winning Director Wendy Jo Carlton’s Love Triangle Feature Film Gets Digital Release

Award-Winning Director Wendy Jo Carlton’s Love Triangle Feature Film Gets Digital Release | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Wolfe Video, the largest exclusive distributor of gay and lesbian films, today announced the early digital release of Wendy Jo Carlton’s critically acclaimed feature film, Good Kisser.

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Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme?

Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Until recently, gay literary characters had to hide their identities. But even now the closet — and the lies and concealment it implies — remains a surprisingly potent metaphor.

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Living your best LGBT life with Suzi Ruffell

Living your best LGBT life with Suzi Ruffell | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The comic hosts an inclusive, intelligent podcast about queer lives. Plus: a double helping of quarantine comedy from duos including French and Saunders

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Groundbreaking Book Details When Mafia Controlled Gay Bars

Groundbreaking Book Details When Mafia Controlled Gay Bars | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In celebrating LGBTQ Pride this June when so much of the world has embraced equality it's difficult to imagine that illicit bars run by the Mafia once were one of the few gathering places for gays and lesbians.

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Howard Cruse’s Queer Classic ‘Stuck Rubber Baby’ Marks 25 Years

Howard Cruse’s Queer Classic ‘Stuck Rubber Baby’ Marks 25 Years | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Pioneering gay cartoonist Howard Cruse died last November while working on a new edition of his acclaimed queer/civil rights graphic novel 'Stuck Rubber Baby'. The book will be published by First Second Books in July in celebration of the book’s 25th anniversary.

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LGBTQ+ Streamer Revry Launches on Samsung TV Plus, Roku

LGBTQ+ Streamer Revry Launches on Samsung TV Plus, Roku | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The niche service aimed at the queer community joins Samsung's free smart TV platform and the Roku Channel in time for Pride season.

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Suk Suk film review: award-winning Hong Kong gay romance follows the twilight affair of two closeted family men

Suk Suk film review: award-winning Hong Kong gay romance follows the twilight affair of two closeted family men | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Suk Suk film review: award-winning Hong Kong gay romance follows the twilight affair of two closeted family men

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Finding Love—And Feeling Worthy Of It—In 'Felix Ever After'

Finding Love—And Feeling Worthy Of It—In 'Felix Ever After' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Kacen Callender's new young adult novel centers on a queer, trans teen and a quest that takes him on an emotional roller coaster.

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All-Star Live Stream Benefit Reading of Del Shores’ Play SORDID LIVES

All-Star Live Stream Benefit Reading of Del Shores’ Play SORDID LIVES | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The Del Shores Foundation presents a one-night-only benefit reading of the original SORDID LIVES play by Del Shores for a #SordidLiveStream. The reading will be live streamed on YouTube and Facebook on Sunday, May 31 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern, hosted and produced by Emerson Collins and Del Shores.

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Monica Raymund on Playing an LGBT Character in Hightown: 'Any Time I Get to Represent My Community, I Jump On It'

Monica Raymund on Playing an LGBT Character in Hightown: 'Any Time I Get to Represent My Community, I Jump On It' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Raymund also weighs in on whether she'll return to Chicago Fire

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PBS Celebrates 'Pride Month' With Series on LGBTQ+ Identity in the South, 'Prideland'

PBS Celebrates 'Pride Month' With Series on LGBTQ+ Identity in the South, 'Prideland' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which receives over $300 million in federal funding each year through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), is introducing a series to celebrate "Pride Month" in June that will examine LGBTQ+ life in the southern United States. 

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Eastsiders' Kit Williamson Says LGBTQ Characters 'Saved My Life'

Eastsiders' Kit Williamson Says LGBTQ Characters 'Saved My Life' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The Eastsiders creator-writer-star opens up about what the show means to him, why queer stories matter — and his dream to become "the gay male Phoebe Waller-Bridge"

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Alice Wu’s Lesbian Rom-Com Was Influential, but Her Follow-Up Wasn’t Easy

Alice Wu’s Lesbian Rom-Com Was Influential, but Her Follow-Up Wasn’t Easy | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

When she made “Saving Face,” Wu didn’t expect to influence a generation of Asian-American actresses and directors. Her new Netflix movie arrives in a much different time.

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“All in My Family” Highlights the LGBT+ Asian American Experience

“All in My Family” Highlights the LGBT+ Asian American Experience | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

“All in My Family” documents the experiences of Hao Wu, a gay Chinese American film director, as he and his partner start a non-traditional family and learn how to raise children via surrogate mothers amid backlash from Wu’s conversative family. But this 40-minute documentary is also about the cultural and generational barriers gay people all over the world have to overcome.

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Brian Michael Smith of '9-1-1: Lone Star' on mindful quarantine

Brian Michael Smith of '9-1-1: Lone Star' on mindful quarantine | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

A regular in Fox's '9-1-1: Lone Star,' Smith has gotten a lot of reading done as he waits out the pandemic in a friend's guestroom.

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