LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music

Unlike Cannes and Venice, Sundance isn't a film festival that inspires too many standing ovations. But moviegoers at the Eccles Theatre were moved (more than once!) to stand up and applaud after the premiere of "Will & Harper," a funny, heartbreaking and poignant documentary about Will Ferrell taking a road trip with his longtime friend,

The subject of eponymous short documentary "Alok" addressed the new Utah anti-trans bill that is "trying to criminalize us out of existence" while at 2024 Sundance.

Queer sexuality gets an explicit exploration in this moving second film from Mikko Mäkelä about a 25-year-old London writer living a double life.

"Love Lies Bleeding," which screened Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival, stars Katy O'Brien as a bisexual bodybuilder in a crime saga with her gym owner lover (Kristen Stewart).

Stewart invests the role with an avid hunger, stripping away her normally cool façade to give the film a charged center of vulnerability.

Finnish-British director Mikko Mäkelä isn't shying away from sexual content in "Sebastian," which has its world premiere on Sunday at Sundance Film Festival. "As was already the case with ‘A Moment in the Reeds,' I wanted to provide a very frank and honest portrayal of queer sexuality," he tells Variety, referencing his 2017 debut. "For

Queer TV is facing an uphill battle in the streaming age. The anniversary of Showtime's iconically flawed lesbian franchise reminds us what could have been.

Iconic queer films like “The Times of Harvey Milk” and “Go Fish” and new titles including “Layla” and “Desire Lines” will screen at Sundance's 40th edition.

Alex Hedison was around three-quarters of the way through capturing the 40 hours of footage she would eventually collect of celebrated nonbinary Indian American performance artist, scholar and writer Alok Vaid-Menon when it finally became clear what angle her short doc Alok should take. "At the time where I was trying to figure out what

From Heathers to Young Frankenstein, these titles could follow in the singing, dancing footsteps of The Color Purple and Mean Girls

LET’S UNPACK THAT: With its abundance of queer cast members and the undeniable subtext to its plot, the original ‘Mean Girls’ has helped raise generations of baby gays. The new musical reboot is even more literal in its depiction of queer adolescence... but today’s teens aren’t necessarily convinced, finds Charlotte O’Sullivan

This is the actress's second Emmy award for her 'White Lotus' character.

Julian Lucas profiles Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the playwright behind “Gloria,” “An Octoroon,” and “Everybody,” whose “Appropriate” is now on Broadway and who is working to turn Prince’s “Purple Rain” into a stage musical.

"Ponyboi," which Gallo originally conceived while at NYU more than 10 years ago, follows an intersex sex worker in New Jersey over the course of Valentine's Day.

The partnership will see the organization creating multiple activations during the show's upcoming run.

Sundance 2024: “He’s kinda f–ked up,” Gallo says of their character in the film The post ‘Ponyboi’ Star River Gallo Says the Key to Accurate LGBTQ Representation Is the ‘Bravery to Be Messy’ | Video appeared first on TheWrap.

LET’S UNPACK THAT: In the ghostly new drama ‘All of Us Strangers’, director Andrew Haigh casts Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as gay men who find each other in a lonely London. Sophie Monks Kaufman speaks to Haigh and author Olivia Laing about why artists have always been drawn to isolated people on society’s fringes

Ruaridh Mollica says he had a year to prepare for his "role of a lifetime - so far" in Finnish filmmaker Mikko Makela's powerful new film Sebastian, which premieres at Sundance on Sunday. The film follows a culture journalist who goes undercover and leads a double life as a sex worker to research a debut novel.

How Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen collaborated on Drive-Away Dolls, a lesbian road trip movie decades in the making.

Drag performer turned filmmaker Amrou Al-Kadhi's liberating feature is buoyed by assured camerawork, a charismatic lead, and a convincing love story, even as some of the screenplay beats feel manufactured to create tensions.

Temim Fruchter discusses her debut novel and the winding history that guided her.

For Coen (and Cooke, who has identified as a lesbian since her teenage years, the pair describing their 30-year marriage as “unconventional”) it was always the intent to make a rollocking romp together.

After writing a horror series, this Peoria author has published the start of a new LGBTQ book series.

“And Gilded Age,” Bloys added. “I need Gay Twitter to come out and support Gilded Age.”

Renaissance Theatre artistic director Donald Rupe has his eye on Broadway for his musical “From Here,” which follows a tight-knit group of friends in the days around the 2016 mass shooting at Orlando’s gay nightclub Pulse. The next step? A six-and-a-half-week engagement off-Broadway this summer. “It doesn’t feel surprising that this is happening, but it does feel huge,” Rupe said. “It’s all