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It’s hard to believe but 15 years have passed since the iconic gay film Brokeback Mountain was released. The film caused a major sensation at the time, raking in almost $180 million at the box office and scoring Oscar nominations for stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, as well as awarding director Ang Lee his first Oscar statuette. Now, in a new interview with The Today Show, 38-year-old Gyllenhaal reveals the one thing about the film that really irked his late...

All good things come to an end. Twice? On Thursday, NBC announced that the upcoming season of the Will & Grace revival will be its last. The cancelation appears to have been a unified decision from the show’s creative team. When the show, created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnik, first premiered in 1998, it marked a new moment in LGBTQ visibility for mainstream audiences. It ran for eight seasons and was revived in 2017 to much acclaim (and even a mention...

Writer/director Doug SpearmanOne very hot Friday afternoon, amid the swelter and indie rock music of Republic of Pies, a hipster hangout in North Hollywood, actor, writer and director Doug Spearman sits down across from us, iced coffee in hand. Spearman has come straight from the airport, where he picked up longtime editor Christo Tsairas from arrivals. Tsairas has flown in from Boston on the eve of a milestone for both men: their latest film From Zero to I Love You, opens...

The Disney Channel made network history recently by featuring its first-ever teen same-sex couple on the final episode of its popular pre-teen drama series Andi Mack. Fans of the show may remember that in October 2017 Cyrus Goodman, a friend of the show’s titular heroine, revealed he had a crush on a boy. Although the show subsequently left Goodman’s sexuality mostly unexplored, in February 2019, Goodman actually said “I’m gay,” another groundbreaking first for channel. Some fans worried that Goodman’s sexual...

Char Diaz, Friday Chamberlin, Diana Hopper, & Zolee Griggs (left to right)Brad Michael Elmore sounds a bit winded as he joins us on the phone. “I’m here!” he chirps. We know why: His third feature film, the dark comedy Bit, opens at Outfest in Los Angeles July 26 & 27. Bit stars transgender actress Nicole Maines (of Supergirl) as Laurel, a recent high school graduate who jets off to Los Angeles to spend the summer with her brother. Her first night...

Oscar-winner Faye Dunaway, known for her roles in classics like Chinatown and Network, as well as for camp movies like Supergirl and Mommie Dearest, received her walking papers this week after allegedly slapping a crew member on the set of the Broadway-bound Tea at Five. Tea at Five, a one-woman show about Katherine Hepburn, would have marked Dunaway’s return to the stage after more than 35 years. The production however, while playing out-of-town rehearsals in Boston, had endured canceled performances and behind the scenes bickering,...

Singer-actress and queer firebrand Janelle Monae has announced her next project: she will replace Oscar-winner Julia Roberts in Season 2 of the acclaimed Amazon series Homecoming. Season 1 of the mystery-thriller series starred Roberts as a woman working for the Homecoming Center, a medical facility designed to help traumatized servicemen return to civilian life. Four years after leaving the facility, she realizes that her memories are somehow blocked, and her reasons for departing are not what they seemed. Season 2 will follow...

Demi Burnet (image via ABC)ABC’s reality TV romance competition The Bachelor has gone through 23 awkward seasons without having ever featured a gay, lesbian or bisexual lover as the catch of the season. But it seems like the series’ spinoff Bachelor in Paradise is finally featuring a queer romantic interest, breaking new ground in the mostly heterosexual series. In The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, single men and women simultaneously “date” 25 people in some exotic locale while systematically rejecting all but one...

James Sweeney moved from his native Alaska to Los Angeles to study film at Chapman University. After several attempts at launching an acting career, Sweeney moved into casting, moonlighting writing and directing short films. His acclaimed shorts The First and Before Midnight Cowboy both earned slots at Frameline, the celebrated San Francisco-based queer media arts festival, and helped him generate enough buzz to drum up funding for his first feature, Straight Up. The romantic comedy plays at Outfest July 23...

Last year Jimmy Fowlie introduced the world to Curtis, the perpetually single GBF. Well, a lot can happen in a year, and you’ll no doubt be delighted to know that in the second installment in the Curtis canon, our gallant protagonist has found himself a boo. It’s all he ever really wanted. At the risk of spoiling the twists and turns of Curtis navigating his new open relationship, we won’t dare say another word. Except to say hit play: source

Top Gear: Maverick (left) and The Witcher (right) / Images via Paramount Pictures and Netflix This year’s San Diego Comic-Con is wrapping up, and that means its time to give you all the rundown of what trailers were released this weekend. This year’s convention didn’t see a lot of movie news as most studios decided to sit this one out. The only studio to really make an appearance was Marvel and they showed up big time! In fact, that Hall H...

For anyone that enjoys men in tights…pay attention! HBO stole the show at the San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, courtesy of the first trailer for the network’s much-anticipated new series Watchmen. For the uninitiated, Watchmen is widely considered the greatest graphic novel ever penned. Indeed, Time ranked it as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. Unlike the classic tales of DC or Marvel Comics, however, Watchmen takes a decidedly real-world approach to the characters and their psychologies. Accordingly, the story also...

Queer Eye fashion maven Tan France has given a makeover to SNL star Pete Davidson, and the two got awfully personal about the latter’s endowments. In addition to his work on the Netflix Queer Eye revival, France hosts his own makeover show via YouTube. A recent installment featured Davidson as his guest, in which France tried to overhaul the comic’s trademark New Jersey frump. The episode opens with the two in bend, where France quips “I’m glad that we didn’t use protection.” He...

A Redditor recently asked fellow users to name the first LGBT movie they watched, and the responses ranged from 1980s erotic horror films to ‘90s indie darlings to modern-day blockbusters. As these commenters can probably attest, there’s nothing quite like seeing yourself reflected on screen… “I still clearly remember watching my first gay movie. It was Taekwondo, directed by Marco Berger. I downloaded it online without telling anyone and watched it on my computer alone in my room one night....