Netflix Responds to Viral Homophobic Tweet in Best Possible Way
Don’t you just love it when homophobes are put in their place? Earlier this week, a Twitter user went viral with an edited Spongebob Squarepants meme supposedly demonstrating how Netflix are forcing “unnecessary gay characters” in every new television series. You know, TV that actually reflects reality. Worryingly, the post earned…
Netflix’s ‘Circus Of Books’ Profiles Conservative Couple Behind Gay Porn Empire
Barry and Karen Mason, who ran the “center of the gay universe” in Los Angeles and became LGBTQ rights advocates, are the subjects of a new documentary. A new documentary will take an in-depth look at the unlikely origins of a gay adult book and porn shop that became a…
‘Sex Education’ Renewed for Season 3 — Eric and Alex Are Coming Back!
Netflix makes the right decisions! Well today at least. In a new promotional video posted to YouTube featuring actor Alistair Petrie, who plays Mr. Groff on the massively popular series, the streaming platform confirmed a third season. This confirmation comes only a month after the second season launched. Sort of…
Netflix’s New Christmas Movie Let It Snow Features a Queer Love Story
A Christmas movie with a queer love story is coming your way. Based on the best-selling book by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow follows a group of high school seniors whose friendships and love lives collide after a snowstorm hits their small town on Christmas…
Netflix’s Tales of the City Trailer Is All About Queer Family
Next month Netflix will debut its revival of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, inviting viewers back to Barbary Lane and a San Francisco that’s changed quite a bit since the days of the original series. Thankfully there are still a few familiar faces alongside several new ones. According to Netflix’s…
Netflix Drop Trailer For Special, Show About a Gay Man with Cerebral Palsy
Ryan O’Connell on TV? Sign us up Netflix released the trailer for Special, the first-ever TV series centred a gay man with cerebral palsy yesterday (25 March). Series creator Ryan O’Connell plays the leading character in the semi-autobiographical 15-minute comedy. The streaming service ordered eight episodes of the show based on O’Connelll’s menoir, I’m Special:…
Exclusive: Get Your First Look at Netflix’s ‘Tales Of The City’ Revival
Prepare to head back to 28 Barbary Lane… Almost two years after it was first announced that a new instalment of Tales of the City was in the works at Netflix, we’ve been given our first official look at the upcoming revival of the hit ’90s series. Original show stars Laura Linney…
WATCH LIST: Ellen Page’s “The Umbrella Academy” and Matt Bomer Enters the DC Universe
And gay drama “Sorry Angel” hits theaters. Openly gay writer-director Christophe Honore’s Sorry Angel is an outstanding queer drama worthy of post-screening conversations. Set in early ’90s France, young would-be filmmaker Arthur (Vincent Lacoste) falls for Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), an accomplished HIV-positive writer and father, despite major differences in their respective realities,…
Netflix orders Jim Parsons-produced Special, a Comedy Series About a Gay Man
Netflix has ordered a comedy series produced by The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons. The series, titled Special, is loosely based on writer Ryan O’Connell’s memoir I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves, in which the author discusses growing up as a Millennial gay man with cerebral palsy, navigating internships, dating, and coming out.…
Netflix’s New Gay Teen Comedy Is Here: Introducing Alex Strangelove
Clumsy sex + a B-52s tribute + psychedelic toads = the perfect gay teen comedy. Daniel Doheny would like the world to know there’s nothing glamorous about filming a high school sex scene. “It’s the least sexy thing that could ever happen,” says the young star of the new…
The Sense8 Finale Finally Has a Premiere Date
At last. Once upon a time, Netflix enlisted the Wachowskis to create an ethereal sci-fi queer-centric series called Sense8. The series became a cult hit, and featured a very important sexually fluid orgy. Then one day, Netflix cancelled the series after just two seasons, triggering the uproar of fans across the globe.…
Ram Dass Shares Golden Wisdom For LGBTQ Elders in Going Home
The new Netflix doc about the bisexual guru is a meditative look at mortality. “I am one of the strange people that absolutely delights and enjoys being with people as they’re dying,” says spiritual teacher and former acid-tripping Harvard professor Ram Dass, “because I know I’m going to have…