In a compelling performance, Colman Domingo resurrects the elegant queer wit and determination of the Civil Rights icon, Bayard Rustin, in his namesake biopic. Though there has been an attempt to minimize and erase black queer people from the mosaic of black history, even going as far as to claim us as a product of…
Here’s what we know for sure about Special, the upcoming Netflix series; Ryan Kayes (played by Ryan O’Connell), the star of the series is in his mid-20s, gay and with cerebral palsy. “Cerebral Palsy is a disability of the brain manifested through muscular in-coordination” Ryan says in the trailer just before he falls. In an…
When Netflix announced they’d be rebooting Bravo’s Queer Eye, I was definitely skeptical because they had a pretty bad reboot record. But I am more than happy to report that it is everything we could have hoped for and more. The show’s premise is that five LGBT men, dubbed the Fab Five, go and help…
Queer Eye was a very successful show in the early 2000s and now the show is back on Netflix. A voice over in the trailer says “The original show was fighting for tolerance. Our show is fighting for acceptance.” The reboot stars Antoni Porowski, specializing in food and drinks; Bobby Berk, focusing on interior design; Karamo Brown,…
We cannot talk about LGBT heroes without mentioning Marsha P. Johnson. She was one of the icons of the gay rights movement in the 1960s, the self-described “street queen” of NY’s gay ghetto, and founded the Transvestites Action Revolutionaries with fellow luminary Sylvia Rivera. When Johnson’s body was found in the Hudson River in 1992, police…
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