The Wachowski siblings have taken to an unusual new medium: Netflix. In Sense8, a Netflix Original science fiction series, the two are illustrating that the streaming giant has the ability to command...
The words ‘transgender character’ and ‘comedy’ in the same sentence are enough to make most trans people twitch. Comedies typically use transgender characters as the butts of jokes and...
Mark your calendars and set your DVRs. If orange is the new black, then Hawaii is the new cool state. Premiering Monday, May 4th on PBS’s Independent Lens is Kumu Hina, Dean Hamer and Joe...
Apparently unsatisfied with cripping up for an Oscar in The Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne is charging ahead in drag as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl, a film purporting to be about the life of...
Russell T. Davies may be particularly famous for his revival of Dr. Who and spell as showrunner from 2005 to 2010, but before then, he made the shortlived series Queer as Folk, chronicling the lives...
At Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, Amazon series Transparent took two awards: best comedy or musical series, and best actor in a comedy series (Jeffrey Tambor). The world promptly took to the...
Showtime’s The Affair is generating a great deal of buzz on the fall television schedule, as a show that might provide an intriguing narrative approach and some insight into the way we view men,...
Transparent is part of Amazon’s answer to Netflix, an attempt to make itself relevant in a new television landscape by producing indie web content for subscribers; and it’s getting rave reviews,...
Michael Lucas is the most mainstreamed, provocative, and controversial figure in gay adult entertainment” according to his website, and it’s hard not to believe the hype. A sort of David O....
The Eurovision Song Contest, that glorious, glittery spectacle that isn’t just out of left field, but comprises the field, had quite the 2014 edition. A televised competition featuring entrants...