Tag: Netflix

Netflix logo in Pride/rainbow colors The organizer’s of the so-called ‘Straight Pride Parade’ scheduled for August 31 in Boston, Massachusetts, received a cease-and-desist letter from streaming giant Netflix informing them to remove their logo from the organizer’s website as a “prospective sponsor.” The organizers, operating under the name ‘Super Happy Fun America,’ included Netflix along with dozens of other major corporations on their website. Journalist Ford Fischer was first to tweet the letter written by Netflix to the organization informing them they...

In the 72 hours before we meet, Bobby was in LA, New York and also Phoenix. After leaving us – on a trip that included an appearance on national television and a date by Royal appointment, in the company of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – he’s casually off to Las Vegas. Confessing he’s feeling just a tad sleepy (and possibly hungover after partying with Killing Eve star Jodie Comer), Bobby is all ours as we meet to discuss...

Attention dear readers: read no further unless you don’t mind a plot-point reveal for the new season of Stranger Things. The popular Netflix nostalgia series sparked discussion after a scene showing the characters Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Will (Noah Schnapp) arguing about the dissolution of their core friend group when most of the boys, including Mike, find girlfriends. Will doesn’t have much interest in dating, and prefers to play Dungeons & Dragons with his friends. The conversation contains a curious rebuke. “It’s...

Juan Pablo Di Pace (images via Instagram) Juan Pablo Di Pace, one of the stars of Netflix’s Fuller House, recently came out as gay during a TedX event in the Netherlands. Di Pace (Mamma Mia!, AD The Bible Continues, Dallas and Camp) spoke to the audience about growing up in Argentina and how, as a small boy, he realized he enjoyed playing with girls instead of boys. Until one day, he heard a word for the first time in first grade. “It started like thunder that...

Credit: Queer Eye Queer Eye dropped the trailer for its upcoming 4th season on Monday, July 8, and as expected, it’s emotional AF. The Fab Five (Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France) return for another round of tears, triumphs and more as they navigate their way through several different subjects (or as they call them, heroes) in Kansas City. One of those people is JVN’s high school orchestra teacher named Happy who he says saved several people’s...

Noah Schnapps as Will Byers / Image via Netflix Stranger Things fans want to know if the character Will Byers is gay, but a past comment from actor Noah Schnapp shares an important perspective on the conversation. (Of course, Spoilers for season 3 of Stranger Things are down below). LGBTQ fans and fans of LGBTQ content are abuzz after watching the third season of Netflix flagship show Stranger Things. Not only does the show introduce an LGBTQ character but there are...

Well, this is awkward. And possibly cryptic. But also maybe nothing. Who knows? But it’s certainly gotten our attention. Netflix has quietly and inexplicably removed 66 of 120 episodes of Chelsea Handler’s now-cancelled original series “Chelsea” from its platform. This might not seem like such a big deal except that it’s the only time the streaming giant has ever scrubbed content that it owned and created. And the fact that they’re not saying why they did it is also, well, kinda...

A new poll found that LGBTQ are actually pretty fine with just about anyone showing up at Pride, despite controversies around police officers, kinksters, families, and corporations. A poll of 801 LGBTQ people conducted by Whitman Insight Strategies and Buzzfeed News found that the community overwhelmingly supports just about everyone going to Pride. When asked about police officers marching in Pride parades, only 10% of people said “No.” 79% said “yes” and the rest didn’t give an answer. Corporations have also been...

Netflix recently released the 1995 anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, a dramatic post-apocalyptic series in which young people control large bio-mechanical suits to fight off giant destructive monsters. And while fans were initially excited to have the entire series at their fingertips, they quickly realized that Netflix’s new “English-language translation and voice track dials back famous homoerotic subtext,” according to Vox.com. Vox writes: In one particular scene, a boy named Kaworu declares his love for Shinji…. or at least he used...

Plans for a filmed version of the Tony Award-nominated musical The Prom have moved forward, with the announcement of the casting of several key roles. The Prom earned positive notice on Broadway for its musical adaptation of a true story about a lesbian teen who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom in rural Indiana. The school’s reaction kicks off a media circus over the right of queer teens to take whom they choose to school events. Earlier this...

Viola Davis will bring her Oscar-winning acting chops to a film adaptation of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, dramatizing a moment in the life of the queer blues singer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming Netflix film follows Rainey “as she makes a record in a studio in 1920s Chicago, where tensions boil over between her, her white agent and producer and the bandmates.” Actor and playwright Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who previously directed an Off-Broadway production of the...

Queer Eye for two more seasons.The streaming giant announced that season 4 of the reality makeover show will debut on July 19. The Fab Five return to Kansas City for season 4.In season 5, expected to debut in 2020, the series will head to Philadelphia.The show's first two seasons were filmed in Georgia, while season 3 took place in Kansas City.Netflix's Queer Eye, a reboot of Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, features Antoni Porowski (food and wine), Tan...

Bringing new meaning to the term “Fab Five,” Netflix has just announced the renewal of the popular style series Queer Eye for not one but two more seasons. The revival of the reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy features five out-queer men–Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk and Jonathan Van Ness–who deliver makeovers to a different “hero” in each episode; that is, someone successful in life but lacking in style. The Fab Five deliver tips on anything...

Hannah Gadsby Australian comedian, actor, and writer Gadsby’s Netflix standup comedy special Nanette became one of the most talked about comedy specials and was met with critical acclaim for its deconstruction of more traditional standup comedy. This shift caused some to question whether to categorize Nanette as standup or not. Gadsby’s brilliantly written special provides completely unique social commentary on LGBTQ  and women’s issues as well as those of other marginalized people with soul-bearing honesty. Female standup comedians are tapping into subject matter...