Military service, across cultures, has long been equally associated with strictly-enforced masculinity with homophobia and heteronormativity baked into those structures… and with homoeroticism. I’ve always been surprised how little media explores queerness while serving, rather than as a memory after returning from active duty.

I love how this film tackles the subject head on, especially paired with the contemporary dangers associated with it. There’s so much inherent drama in these men having to be so careful testing the waters with…

“Oh, but they have no idea he’s gay.”

The stunned look on Matt Damon’s face is one that I’m sure we’ve all had when hearing that Liberace was closeted and his fans didn’t know he was gay. Honestly, I was just as shocked when I learned he was a conservative— though it’s easier to understand his worship of wealth taking precedence over civil rights and collective liberation. Even today we see countless gay men who would rather fascists than…

I kinda love that the theatre was full to the brim, because I feel like most times I’m seeing a queer film that isn’t the case. 

I was really rooting for this movie, but it fundamentally does not work. Writer-director Max Talisman stars as Zach A, who falls in love with his childhood sweetheart Zach M after decades apart. I know it’s a big deal when someone gets an opportunity to write, direct, and lead a movie… but I don’t…

Luca Guadagnino has sort of made a name for himself in queer cinema, with his two biggest films dealing with queer themes. Call Me By Your Name was all about youthful longing, pretty people in beautiful and faraway places. Everything about it is so distanced, with even the sexualisation of the men isolated from each other and their scenes together having an intimacy without ever touching on anything that really goes beyond the tame teen stories that followed in its wake…