Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Surrendered and Played Along’

I’m not disrespecting anybody or getting my handbag and going, ‘Heaven forbid that people think of this disgusting thing [about] me.’ I was maligned, belittled, disrespected, hated, followed, harangued, phone-tapped… People on the payroll being told to give rumors about me, tell them where I was, people who were in the credit card companies. And my only way of representing myself at the time was to do a book, and the book would say everything about who I was.

Nicki Minaj will likely come out of this losing! Because…

The Traitors, Cameron Diaz’s comeback movie appropriately titled Back In Action, the ongoing sapphic adventures of Harley Quinn, and the live broadcast of the always-entertaining Golden Globe Awards. Plus, plenty of queer classics, new and old, from homoerotic Western Red River to the totally ’90s romance Threesome.Whether you use Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock, Tubi—or some combo of the those—Queerty has your can’t-miss recommendations for each.So, get those watch lists ready; it’s going to be a very gay January.Jump to your streaming platform of choice:Netflix • Prime Video • Max • Hulu • Paramount+ • Peacock • TubiFor many gays, “Cameron Diaz is back!” is enough to sell us on a new movie, and Netflix knows it.

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, as the New Year brings us right until the middle of winter, let’s revisit 1965’s seasonally appropriate gay indie, Winter Kept Us Warm.Happy 2025! To start the year off with the right intentions, this week we’ll take a look at an underrated, under-seen movie from across the northern border that—even though it’s never really gotten its due diligence—occupies a niche space in the queer film canon. It’s a film with a production and a legacy that perfectly reflect the scrappiness, ingenuity, and creative spirit that has characterized our community.As we’ve discussed in this column for almost two years now, making a queer movie has never been an easy task.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Particularly in the early and middle decades of the last century, a myriad of obstacles would prevent our stories from being told, both within the Hollywood system and the broader culture: strict moral codes that stopped any “controversial” characters or plotlines from being portrayed, narrative conventions that limited the kind of lives and stories that could be explored, and a heavily religious and homophobic society that wasn’t ready to welcome us into their movie screens.But if it was hard to get queer movies made (and seen) in the United States—within the giant Hollywood machinery backing the productions—it was much, much more difficult in other countries.

The Capital Pride Alliance, the group that organizes most D.C. LGBTQ Pride events, announced it is inviting the community to attend a Jan. 7 live and virtual “Evening With LGBTQ+ Heroes” who were recipients of the group’s annual Heroes Award.