Arts & Entertainment

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From Oscar Nominee Laura Linney to RuPaul Drag Race Awardees, Beat the Heat with Revry’s August Originals on Pluto TV

This August, Revry premieres fabulous, star-studded Original Series and Original Films live on its free Pluto Channel 649.  On Sunday, August 18th at 7pm(pst) / 10pm(est) binge on your favorite RUPAUL DRAG RACE icons backstage and on tour in the fascinating new documentary film, THE QUEENS, starring Alaska Thunderf*ck, Sharon Needles, Jinkx Monsoon and Katya!  Then jump into the bizarre and titillating underground world of MISS ROSEWOOD at 9pm(pst) / 12am(est) about the legendary extreme performance artist and trans advocate. Sunday, August 25th at 5pm(pst) / 8pm(est) step into the brave new worlds of seven young Generation Z heroes in the inspiring […]

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Book Review: “100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism” by Chavisa Woods

“There are horror movies about women behaving this way. There are romantic comedies about men doing the same.”—100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism The new book by Chavisa Woods, which was released on June 25th of this year, sat unread on my nightstand for a good week before I managed the courage to pick it up. The title alone terrified me: 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism. As a person who is sexually harassed regularly and has been sexually harassed for the majority of my adult life, it seemed like reading a book that dives into the compounding trauma of frequent sexual harassment […]

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Book Review: “Crossing” BY Pajtim Statovci

The line of history and legend blends easily the further away one gets from the event or the era of the figure. Historical figures begin to take on mythical and messianic reputations to the point where they often cease to seem like they were once ordinary men and women. It’s also with the adage of time that the perceptions and reactions to these historical events and figures adapt and take new meaning with sociopolitical paradigm shifts, turning heroic figures into figures of derision, or vice versa. It’s through these cultural shifts that it becomes clear that the nature of story, […]

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NBC Cancels Will & Grace after One Final Season

NBC announced on Thursday (25 July) the upcoming season of Will & Grace is the last. Will & Grace, which ushered in visibility for LGBTI people (primarily gay men), premiered in 1998. It lasted for eight seasons, before NBC brought it back for a revival in 2017. David Kohan and Max Mutchnik created the series. It follows best friends Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra Messing), an interior designer. Rounding out their quarter is Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes), a gay actor, and Karen Walker (Megan Mullaly), a self-centered socialite. Over the course of its many seasons, the […]

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Clara Bradbury-Rance Talks Lesbian Visibility in Film

A new cinema text of note, Clara Bradbury-Rance’s Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory (Edinburgh University Press) seeks to take an overdue dive into the long-standing conversation about visibility and representation in film. Grounding her research to an octet of films—Mulholland Drive, Nathalie…, Chloe, Water Lilies, She Monkeys, Blue Is the Warmest Color, and Carol—she offers new ways of thinking about the queer moving image. Lambda Literary recently spoke to Clara about Lesbian Cinema and lesbian cinema alike. You’ve made a compelling case for the importance in distilling lesbian characters from ‘queer,’ while deploying queer theory as a way of analyzing these figures. Why this distinction, and this collaboration between disciplines? Well, […]

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Poetry Review: “Pet Sounds” byStephanie Young

“to be or fare well/now and in the hour of our death” — from “Ave I Via,” Pet Sounds How does a poet tackle the purposefully-gigantic topic of identity in an age like ours? As Eileen Myles says of Pet Sounds: “Stephanie’s seriously interested in a total ride through relationship and humanity, song, family and what else.” Or, as Anna Moschovakis says, this book (or love) “lets the bullshit in and survives it.” Sentimentality isn’t the cliché we all throw at it; rather, it’s the crime of oversimplification. Love poems fall into the same taxonomy as identity poems for often this same […]

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Book Review: “My Butch Career: A Memoir” by Ester Newton

In 1985, Esther Newton’s trailblazing essay “The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: RadclyffeHall and the New Woman” appeared within the pages of the lesbian issue of the prestigious feminist journal Signs. Written in 1981 and published in this landmark volume, the piece, Newton explains, “was my return to scholarly work, and it made masculine lesbians my subject. Finally, I could pull my career and my queer life together” But it is the period preceding this fusion that is the subject of Newton’s memoir, My Butch Career (a 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist for lesbian memoir/biography). Newton follows a conventional chronological path tracing her ancestral line and unorthodox childhood as she struggled to adjust as a half Jewish illegitimate […]

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Book Review: “All City”by Alex DiFrancesco

It is hard to read Alex DiFrancesco’s All City and not think of Hurricane Sandy and the destruction done to New York City during that particular catastrophe. The sentiment that “New York didn’t seem like a place that could have an end. We would all wake up to our coffee in Greek paper cups and be furious about the train delays no matter what happened” is very real, and certainly during the days leading up to Sandy, there was a distinct feeling that whatever the news was reporting was over-hyped and New York could withstand anything. Even when the evacuation warnings started, […]

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Gay Teen Couple Makes Mexican TV History

A new Mexican telenovela is the first in the country’s history to feature a gay couple as leading characters. Juntos, El Corazon Nunca se Equivoca, which translates “Together, the Heart is Never Wrong”, premiered on Sunday (June 23) is about teen couple Aristóteles “Aris” Córcega and Cuauhtémoc “Temo” López moving to Mexico City to start university. The characters originally appeared in another telenovela — Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia (My Husband Has More Family) — and this show will be a spin-off focusing on the gay teens’ relationship. This means that the couple already have a fandom, who use the “ship” name Aristemo […]

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Book Review: “Chain Reactions” by Lynn Ames

At the age of 100, Nora Lindstrom is nearing the end of her life thanks to advanced small cell lung cancer. She has a lot to be proud of after a decades-long career as a physicist who worked tirelessly to end childhood leukemia. A few things are haunting Nora’s last days, however, including how she had to walk away from her grand-niece Diana without explanation when Diana was a young child. Nora is still living in her own home, but her rapid decline in health signals that it’s time for her to get some help and put a power of […]

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