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Kevin Bacon on How He and Kyra Sedgwick Supported Their Children in Figuring Out Their Identities: “There’s a Long History of Forcing Children Into Boxes”
Kevin Bacon says that he and his wife and fellow actor Kyra Sedgwick tried their best to support their now-adult children as they were figuring out their identity, including their sexuality. The award-winning actor spoke to Yahoo Entertainment ahead of the release of his latest movie, Peacock horror-thriller They/Them, discussing one of the key themes […]
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Jay Leno Says Former ‘Tonight Show’ Staffer Is Why He Stopped Telling Jokes About Transgender People
Jay Leno says the reaction from a member of his former Tonight Show staff to a joke he made about transgender people resulted in him apologizing and promising to never make transgender people the target of his jokes again. The former TV host and comedian shared the story while appearing as a guest on the […]
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Disney Among Studios to Sign Open Letter Supporting Passage of the Respect for Marriage Act
After facing public and internal turmoil earlier this year over its response to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation — also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — The Walt Disney Company is among a handful of Hollywood studios signing an open letter in support of codifying some LGBTQ+ marriage rights into federal law. Spearheaded […]
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Outfest at 40: Inside the Anniversary of L.A.’s LGBTQ Film Festival
In 1982 — when L.A.’s LGBTQ film festival Outfest was born, the same year that Making Love, Personal Best and Victor/Victoria were released — queer content on screen was mostly scarce and what did exist was often hard to access. Cut to the 40th anniversary this year of Outfest, and gay content is easy to […]
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Guest Column: How One Showrunner Found Her Queer Identity (and Connection) During the Pandemic
It’s the last week of Pride, and I’m in a production office in Toronto, and Roe v. Wade has just been annihilated. I’ve been reading and texting and talking about it, but there is this strange separation being out of the country while this unfolds. Like you’re watching it, but it’s not really happening. It […]
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‘Lonesome’: Film Review
Lingering trauma from his rural hometown follows a young gay Australian cowboy to the big city in writer-director Craig Boreham’s erotic drama of sex, solitude and human connection.
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‘Loving Highsmith’: Film Review
Gwendoline Christie voices Patricia Highsmith’s diary entries and prose in Eva Vitija’s emotionally candid portrait of the writer and her place in the queer literary firmament.
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Billy Porter Takes Down Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott for Transphobia and Bad Hair in New PSAs
“Gregory, Gregory, Gregory. It’s hard enough with you being an intolerable, soulless and empty shell of a human being. But how do you continue to live with yourself with a hairline looking like that?” Billy Porter says in a new PSA directed at Texas governor Greg Abbott. “Is that a lacefront?” The Emmy, Grammy and […]
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‘Lightyear’ Producer Says Disney Was “Supportive” of Lesbian Characters, but There Was “Definite Pushback” to Kiss
Disney supported Lightyear’s inclusion of two lesbian characters but was hesitant about featuring a kiss between them, according to one of the film’s producers. In an interview with Mercury News, Galyn Susman, a producer for the Toy Story and Buzz Lightyear origin tale, briefly touched on the controversy around Pixar’s first animated feature film same-gender […]
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How the ‘Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration’ Special Honors “Fearless” Comedians
Page Hurwitz had a plan to tell the story of LGBTQ+ comedians with the help of one big historic show — and then the pandemic hit. But as the global shuttering put a pause on her original plans, it opened the door for an invitation to the Netflix Is a Joke festival, where the director, […]
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‘Will-o’-the-Wisp’ (‘Fogo-Fatuo’): Film Review | Cannes 2022
Portuguese writer-director João Pedro Rodrigues' queer fantasy sci-fi musical stars Mauro Costa as a royal prince who learns the ways of firefighting from Andre Cabral's hunky hose jockey.
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‘The Blue Caftan’ (‘Le bleu du caftan’): Film Review | Cannes 2022
Moroccan writer-director Maryam Touzani’s stirring second feature maps a melancholy relationship triangle involving an artisanal tailor, his dying wife and his male apprentice.
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