Film and TV

Paul Mescal in Normal People and Josh O’Connor on the red carpet. (Hulu/Getty) The Crown‘s Josh O’Connor and Normal People star Paul Mescal are set to play gay lovers in an upcoming romantic drama called The History of Sound. The film, directed by Oliver Hermanus, will follow Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor) as they embark on an extraordinary mission
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Some horror fans have labelled Halloween’s masked killer Michael Myers “homophobic” after he killed a gay couple in the new film Halloween Kills. (YouTube/Universal Pictures) A gruesome murder of a gay couple in Halloween Kills has resulted in some horror fans calling the villain Michael Myers “homophobic”. The long running Halloween franchise has largely focused
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Johannes Radebe and John Whaite dancing on Strictly Come Dancing. (BBC) Strictly Come Dancing has been accused of sexism for allegedly “predatory” comments made by judges towards male dancers. The BBC’s primetime dancing show has reportedly received a higher than usual number of viewer complaints this year relating to sexist comments about male contestants, as
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Comedian Hannah Gadsby performs on stage ‘Nanette’ during Assembly Gala Launch for Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 2 August 2017. (Getty/Roberto Ricciuti) Queer comedian Hannah Gadsby slammed Netflix head Ted Sarandos after the co-CEO included her name in a written defence of Dave Chappelle. Sarandos addressed escalating backlash against Chappelle’s anti-trans jokes in his latest special
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Dave Chappelle. (Getty/ Sean Rayford) Netflix has “suspended” a trans employee who spoke out against Dave Chappelle’s new special, The Closer. In Chappelle’s latest comedy special, which premiered on Netflix on 5 October, he makes explicit jokes about trans women’s genitals and defends DaBaby and JK Rowling, before declaring himself “Team TERF“. The next day, Terra Field,
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Jamie Clayton will take on the role of Hellraiser in a reboot. (Twitter/Entertainment Film Distributors) Trans actor Jamie Clayton has been cast as Pinhead in an upcoming remake of the very camp, very queer horror classic Hellraiser – and fans are overjoyed. Hellraiser quickly became a cult horror classic when it was released in 1987. The film revolves
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Kathryn Hahn stole the show in WandaVision. (Disney) Bonafide gay icon and all-round legend Kathryn Hahn is reportedly getting her own WandaVision spin-off, and fans are overjoyed. WandaVision took the world by storm when it was released on Disney Plus earlier this year – but it was Hahn who really captured fans’ hearts  as the spectacular Agatha Harkness.
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Stephanie Beatriz as Rosa Diaz in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres in Grey’s Anatomy and Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma in The Good Wife. (NBC/ABC/CBS) Queer visibility is on the up, and TV is finally starting to get bisexual representation right. Let’s be honest – LGBT+ representation on television still isn’t great. Things
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In the throwback photo, Leslie Jordan would have been in his early to mid-twenties. (Getty/ Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives and Instagram/ thelesliejordan) Actor Leslie Jordan has shared a topless throwback picture from 1980, inspiring thirst across the internet. On Sunday (19 September), Jordan took to Instagram to share a photo of himself more than 40
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Amazon Studios is developing a live-action series based on ‘She-Ra’, and fans are not happy about it. (Netflix) Amazon is developing a She-Ra live-action series, and fans are concerned the new reboot could do away with LGBT+ representation in the franchise. Variety reported the Amazon Studios reboot is still in the early stages, and there
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