Arts & Entertainment

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Gay Adult Film Written By Late Actor Sir John Gielgud Creates Row In U.K.

  A pornographic gay film based on an original screenplay by the late actor Sir John Gielgud has wrapped production, but it still faces tremendous opposition from his estate. Set in a men’s clothing store where an orgy takes place, Trouser Bar stars Nigel Havers and Julian Clary as passerby who spy the proceedings fondly. Gielgud, one of the most celebrated stage actors of his time, but best-known for his Oscar-winning work as Dudley Moore’s butler in the film comedy Arthur and for his turn in the TV drama Brideshead Revisited, wrote the screenplay in secret in 1976 and intended […]

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New Memoir Explores Black Gay Experience

Born to a 14-year-old mother, raised in a household with an alcoholic grandfather, Jarrett Neal was in eighth grade when his gym class accidentally walked in on their coach showering. It was Neal’s first glimpse of a naked man and it “ended my boyhood,” he writes in “What Color is Your Hoodie: Essays on Black Gay Identity.” He was well into college when he finally admitted to himself that he was attracted to men; still, the “daily taunts” from his more athletic, more self-confident peers and the absence of a father haunted him for many years. To counteract it, Neal […]

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Gay Jamaican Author Marlon James Wins Man Booker Prize

Gay Jamaican novelist Marlon James was awarded the 2015 Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for his novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. The prize is the top literary honor in the UK and comes with an award of $78,000. Using the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s as a springboard, it delves into Jamaican politics, gang wars and drug trafficking. Judges called the novel the “most exciting book” on this year’s list. “It’s a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about,” […]

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Book Review: ‘Lord Byron’s Prophecy’ by Sean Eads

A darkly hallucinatory and unsettling fever-dream of a novel, Lord Byron’s Prophecy offers doppelgängers, apocalyptic visions, ominous portents, and eerie hauntings as it recounts a centuries-spanning tale of guilt–and appetite–driven men whose suppressed secrets and illicit desires poison their own lives and those around them. With a kaleidoscopic, continent-crossing narrating technique that leap-frogs between 1816, 1960, 2010, and 2027; Sean Eads (The Survivors) makes a case—a gothic-veined and sporadically operatic one—for what Freud called the return of the repressed. Set in various American and European locales, the prismatic story opens with Adam Fane, a deeply miserable, raving, and semi-delirious English […]

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The Extinction of America’s Middle Class Explored in SSU Production of “The Hummingbird Wars”

Sonoma State University Department of Theatre Arts & Dance presents “The Hummingbird Wars” written by Carter Lewis and directed by Judy Nava. Carter Lewis’s new satire captures the outrageous and harrowing extremes of life when a man and his family fight against the threat of middle-class extinction in the 21st Century. Ripped from today’s headlines the play examines the consequences of evolving realities of modern life in the suburbs. Hot from the stages of Miami’s Arts Garage, “The Hummingbird Wars” follows the frustrations of an Afghan war-hero father and husband as he battles teenage cyber-bullying, pharmaceutical and cable conspiracy theories, […]

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“Winning Dad” Offers Up Interesting Family Drama and Sexy Romance

  Colby is ‘out’ to his family and whilst his mother and his sister accept his sexuality, his father can barely tolerate it and refuses to even discuss it. It’s a pity as Colby now has a steady boyfriend Rusty, who he not only loves but he wants to go into business with too and open a restaurant together.  Neither of then are in the first flush of youth and so their relationship marks the perfect time for them to finally settle down. Colby has shared all this news with the women in his family but has been trying to […]

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Time Warped: How ‘Rocky Horror’ Got It Right 40 Years Ago

  This year we are celebrating 40 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show an incredible cult classic famous for its tongue in cheek humour and, well, Tim Curry in fish nets. The musical is a satirical acknowledgement of science fiction and horror movies, but not only that, Rocky Horror recognises and draws upon the issues of sexuality and gender that mocks society’s attitudes towards these matters. Sadly for some reason it has taken 40 year for parts of society to even truly consider taking a page out of Rocky Horror’s book, and begin to accept sexuality and gender fluidity. […]

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Book Review: ‘The One That Got Away’ by Carol Rosenfeld

In The One That Got Away, Carol Rosenfeld’s debut novel, wedding planning—the stuff of cotton candy-spun dreams—serves as the backdrop for the romantic longings of Bambi Devine—B.D. to her friends—who earns her living in the industry. B.D. has recently come out, although, as is often the case, she is the last of her friends to know. No matter. She now knows, and throughout this up-close-and-personal first-person novel, she explores life options and lesbian lingerie from her middle-aged dyke vantage. She has an eye for detail, which she uses to help would-be brides and grooms select place settings and silver for […]

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Spreckels Theatre Company 2015 to 2016 Season

  Spreckels Theatre Company has announced its main stage and studio theater productions for its 2015 to 2016 season including an encore presentation of “Mary Poppins” and award-winning musicals “The Light in the Piazza” and “Kismet” Located in Rohnert Park, Spreckels Theatre Company is a semi-professional resident theater company which has garnered critical and audience acclaim, media accolades and S.F. Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle awards for its artistic values and depth of performance. With a pledge to raise the bar of excellence, Spreckels Theatre Company strives to present the best musical productions and plays in the North Bay – […]

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Book Review: ‘Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters’ by Emanuel Levy

For me, it began with Volver. I went with my mother (of course) when it came out. I felt as though I was returning home, though I’d never been to this world before. Who were these fulgent women in red? Who was this director, and what was this physical and emotional place where kitschy interior furnishings, high heels, loud fights, kinky sex and sobbing could conjure a mix of joy and total devastation? The answers, respectively, were Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura, Pedro Almodóvar, and “Almodovaria,” what the film critic A.O. Scott once defined as a “syndrome” inspired by the […]

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