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“The Serpent’s Skin," directed by Alice Maio Mackay, opens March 27 at the Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn.

Cinema

Q&A: Trans filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay on her horror film ‘Serpent’s Skin’

By Gary M. Kramer

“Alpha," directed by Julia Ducournau, opens March 27th at IFC Center.

Cinema

In ‘Alpha,’ a French family confronts a deadly, mysterious virus

By Steve Erickson

“Dakan” (aka “Destiny”), the first queer film from West Africa, will be available virtually nationwide March 26-30.

Cinema

Queering the Canon festival set to showcase seven classic LGBTQ films

By Gary M. Kramer

HOMAGE 1 (HOMENAJE 1), 2026.

Beauty and the Bestial: Exhibition confronts the ugly truths of Fire Island’s past and present

By Nicholas Boston

Ignorance = Fear _ Silence = Death by Keith Haring, 1989 copyright © Keith Haring Foundation, Poster House Collection.

The visual fight: How posters chronicled NYC’s AIDS crisis

By David Kennerley

Angelo Madsen is the director of "A Body to Live In."

Cinema

Q&A: Trans director Angelo Madsen on Fakir Musafar and ‘A Body to Live In’

By Steve Erickson

Anjimile's “You’re Free To Go” debuts March 13.

Music

March LGBTQ music: Morrissey’s ‘Make-up Is a Lie’ and Anjimile’s ‘You’re Free To Go’

By Steve Erickson

Eloy Pohu in "Enzo."

Cinema

Overview of LGBTQ-themed films at Rendez-vous with French Cinema

By Steve Erickson

Andy (Jake Mosser) and Luis (Euriamis Losada) in “Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!"

Cinema

Q&A: Director Todd Stephens on the re-release of ‘Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!’

By Gary M. Kramer

James Anthony finally has a dance party to call his own: Unspeakable Joy.

Music

DJ James Anthony brings down the house with Unspeakable Joy

By David Kennerley

Galina Jovovich and Anna Baryshnikov in "Idiotka."

Cinema

Affable satire ‘Idiotka’ coasts by on its charm

By Gary M. Kramer

Lambda Lounge and Club Lambda are owned by 2022 Impact Award winners Charles Hughes and Richard Solomon.

Brooklyn-based Club Lambda set to permanently close

By Matt Tracy

“Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It," directed by Paris Barclay, opens Feb. 20 at Film Forum.

Cinema

‘Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It’ charts the rise and fall of a troubled gay musician

By Steve Erickson

Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest release is called “Laughter In Summer."

Music

February LGBTQ music: Troye Sivan and Beverly Glenn-Copeland

By Steve Erickson

Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine.

Theater

At 92nd Street Y, ‘Our People’ delivers an operatic tribute to Black queer experiences

By Rohan Zhou-Lee

The culminating piece of the exhibit is a 14th century German statue borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, depicting Jesus and John the Baptist in the style of a married couple. The plaque describes how medieval viewers would have seen their relationship as a form of marriage “with Jesus in the role of the groom” and one that “stretched gender roles and sexual identities.”

The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages

By Michael Luongo

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