With Luca Guadagnino’s intoxicating 1950s Mexico City-set feature Queer, based on the cult novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs, now playing in US theaters nationwide from A24, writer, actor, and comedian Drew Droege speaks exclusively with The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann about taking on the role of “judgy drunk queen” John Dumé. During the conversation, Droege shares his…

Over the last decade, Emmy-nominated writer, director, and producer Sydney Freeland has forged an impressive film and television career centering marginalized characters and diverse voices. Earlier this year, Echo, the Marvel limited series that she directed and executive produced, premiered at number one on both Disney+ and Hulu. Back in 2014, her debut feature, Drunktown’s Finest, inspired by…

Charlie Covell, creator of the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated The End Of The F***ing World, is about to unleash KAOS on Netflix: their eight-episode, bold, darkly comic, contemporary—and frequnetly queer—take on Greek mythology, launching Thursday, August 29th. Epic in scope, the series follows the steady unraveling of the cruel and capricious King of the Gods, Zeus (Jeff Goldblum), as he…

Back in 1993, when Chelsea was the gay epicentre of New York City, Frederick Kearney and David Lauterstein met over $1 margaritas at the Break bar on 8th Avenue in Manhattan, and soon fell in love. A year later, the future husbands co-founded what would become one of the world’s most iconic gay culture brands, Nasty Pig, with David as CEO and Fred as artistic director. Initially making clothing…

In the delectably queer (in every sense of the word) new HBO comedy series Fantasmas, creator-writer-director-star Julio Torres (Los Espooskys, Problemista) plays a thirty-something creative named Julio Torres. He lives in a heightened, only-ever-so-slightly surreal version of New York City with his trusty robot assistant Bibo (voiced by Joe Rumrill), an aspiring actor eyeing human roles. Early…

Ron Nyswaner’s exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction, Fellow Travelers, is a compelling and deeply moving epic miniseries that takes in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s and follows its repercussions in the lives of those directly affected through the following decades, taking in the post-Stonewall period of liberation in the 70s up to the devastation of the onset of HIV/AIDS in the…

Ahead of the thrilling season 3 finale of creator Don Mancini’s deliciously dark hit comedy horror series Chucky debuting on USA and Syfy on Wednesday, May 1st at 10/9c, Björgvin Arnarson, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Zackary Arthur, who play the show’s trio of of teen heroes—Devon (Arnarson), Lexy (Lind), and Jake—speak exclusively with The Queer Review‘s editor James Kleinmann. CHUCKY stars Zackary…

Mike Ruiz takes leathermen into the metaverse with NFT drop

Celebrity and fashion photographer Mike Ruiz, continues to expand his his ongoing portrait series focusing on the beauty and diversity of the leather community, by taking leathermen into the metaverse. On June 5th, Ruiz will be dropping a series of 100 portraits from his leathermen project as NFTs. “With the metaverse gaining momentum and art being tokenized digitally”, Ruiz told The Queer…