Pride Issue
Miss Benny on Bringing a Fabulous Gender-Nonconforming Character to Life on Netflix’s ‘Glamorous’
In early development, Marco Mejia, the gender-nonconforming queer character at the heart of the new series Glamorous — set inside the world of the makeup business — was conceived as a much younger character. “Literally, Marco was in high school,” recalls Miss Benny, who plays him on the show, which debuts June 22. But over […]
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L.A. Went From Having Zero Lesbian Bars to Two New Ones This Year
In West Hollywood’s Boystown neighborhood, there are a wealth of nightlife options catering to cisgender gay men; spots that have opened just in the past 18 months include Heart WeHo (co-owned by Lance Bass), Schmitty’s, Stache and Or Bar (co-owned by style expert and former Fashion Police host George Kotsiopoulos). But there’s been a dearth […]
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Emma Seligman Directed ‘Bottoms’ Because She “Wanted to See Superficial, Horny, Messy Teenage Girls Who Happen to Be Queer”
Bottoms is bloody good fun. In the high school sex comedy, which premiered at SXSW, two lesbian students — played by Rachel Sennott (The Idol) and Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) — are so eager to lose their virginity that they start an after-school fight club, all in the hopes of seducing cheerleaders. Due out Aug. […]
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Harvey Guillén Brings His “Big and Short” Bombshell Style to the Red Carpet
Harvey Guillén always loved to get dressed up. He cannot say the same of shopping. “Going to the mall was so hard,” says the What We Do in the Shadows star. “Somebody made a meme of what it is to be a person of size going shopping with your friends. Everyone else is like, ‘I […]
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Rock Hudson and George Michael Spotlights Lead a Wave of LGBTQ-Themed Documentaries This Summer
This summer, a host of queer-themed documentaries are coming to streaming services and theaters, exploring everything from the lives of celebrities (Rock Hudson, George Michael) to a look at people born intersex. THE STROLL June 21 Directed by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker, the HBO film The Stroll tells the history of New York’s Meatpacking […]
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‘A League of Their Own’ Co-Creator: We Can’t Lose Queer Film and TV Projects Amid Studio Caution
When I was a kid, I had the feeling I was undercover as a boy. I was on a little league baseball team called the Chesapeake Bagel Bakery Bagels, which means I was a Bagel, though I never felt like I deserved the name. I was certain that the other boys on the team were […]
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‘Queer Eye’ Turns 20 at a Critical Moment: “It’s Incumbent Upon All of Us to Have These Conversations”
Not long after Bravo canceled Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2007, the show’s creators thought their showbiz careers were over. Despite masterminding one of the 21st century’s seminal reality TV hits, David Collins, Rob Eric and Michael Williams — the team behind Scout Productions, founded in 1994 as a scrappy indie film outfit […]
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‘Joy Ride’ Actress Sherry Cola on Her Raucous Summer Comedy and No Longer Being Just the Zany Best Friend
After a long day of filming on her upcoming feature Joy Ride, Sherry Cola had a realization while walking back to her Vancouver hotel with co-star Ashley Park. “I said, ‘Ashley, all of the scenes we’ve filmed so far are important,’ ” remembers Cola. That’s because in the R-rated, Adele Lim-directed comedy, she and Park, […]
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How ND Stevenson Created the Healing, “Punk-Rock” Tale of Netflix’s ‘Nimona’
When ND Stevenson, co-producer of Nimona, discusses the fiery titular character of Netflix’s upcoming animated film, he uses descriptors rare for a lead: angry, punky, chubby, weird, off-putting. “She’s this teen girl who wants to murder people,” he says of the charmingly chaotic shape-shifter, aspiring villain and self-dubbed sidekick. She also happens to be his […]
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Transmasculine Actor Lío Mehiel Brings Vulnerability to the Post-Transition Experience in ‘Mutt’
Just two minutes into trans filmmaker Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s feature debut, Mutt, viewers bear witness to how exposed the main character Feña is to others’ projections about his identity. In the scene, Feña’s father refers to him by his birth name, Fernanda, when he calls and questions how he’ll be able to recognize him at the […]
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Living (and Working) in Hostile States Like Florida and Tennessee While LGBTQ
On April 25, native Floridian Berry Ayers, aka Beneva Fruitville, joined with hundreds of her fellow drag performers for a Drag Queen’s March in Tallahassee, Florida. They were there to protest a plethora of hateful legislation targeting drag shows, trans-affirming medical care and bathroom usage. “It was just a show of resistance versus more trying […]
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Rosie O’Donnell on Ellen, Madonna, Trump and 40 Years in the Queer Spotlight
Stand-up comic. Talk show innovator. The View firebrand. Betty Rubble. There’s very little Rosie O’Donnell, 61, has left to accomplish in her singular career. From the moment she broke out of Long Island with a performance on Star Search in 1984, O’Donnell has proved a highly resilient, sometimes confrontational and always entertaining force. She’s also […]
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