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By Jude Jones To mark World AIDS Day 2023, acting managing editor Jude Jones reviews American author Nate Lippens’s recent autofiction novel My Dead Book, a haunting testimony to working-class life through the AIDS crisis that seeks to establish an intergenerational dialogue between the crisis’s survivors and those who have come since, our queer micro-community’s millennials and Gen-Z who have […]

By Miruna Tiberiu GagaOOLala is a Taiwan-based streaming service which aims to bring together queer stories of all genres from around the world. As the first LGBT-focused media platform in Asia, GagaOOLala curates feature films, shorts, documentaries, and series from the past few years, as well as producing its own original content. In the run up to World AIDS Day […]

Your guide to the queer media circus. As usual… 5.5 minutes to read. Your guide to the queer media circus. A weekly digest of the most important queer news in your backyard!  Exclusively for paid subscribers every Monday, “The 9” is curated weekly by Taylor Abbot + the GenZ editorial team. This week, the gay boxing championship, and then:

By Jude Jones The Polari Prize, the only dedicated LGBTQ+ Book Prize in Ireland and the UK, has announced that its 2023 winners’ ceremony will return to the British Library on 24 November 2023. The Polari Prize features two categories: the Polari Book Prize for non-debut writers and the Polari First Book Prize for debut writers. The former category was […]

Netflix’s Oscar-tipped biopic tells the story of an activist whose significant work was often discounted because of his sexuality Most of you probably did not read about Bayard Rustin in school, the former US president Barack Obama observed at a recent film screening in Washington DC. Why? Rustin lived openly and unapologetically gay in the 1950s. “Imagine that, think about […]

By Miruna Tiberiu You’re in a dingy basement, painted in deep, muted blues and ochres. The camera moves languidly from conversation to conversation. Little by little, the event reveals itself; we are on the Parisian set of a film-within-a-film, also called Passages. Neurotic and eager to control everyone’s movements, the film’s director makes a poor young actor, clad in a […]

Your guide to the queer media circus. As usual… 5.5 minutes to read. Your guide to the queer media circus. A weekly digest of the most important queer news in your backyard!  Exclusively for paid subscribers every Monday, “The 9” is curated weekly by Taylor Abbot + the GenZ editorial team. This week, a Mexican queer judge killed, and then: […]

Fraco By Jean-Baptiste Del Amo It was here that we would congregate, from the first days of spring, just outside the little town of Aniane, at the foot of the Pont du Diable, the ancient bridge that spanned the smooth limestone banks of the river Hérault. Our parents knew all too well that there would come a day when we […]

The arrival of fresh queer representation brings forth an opportunity to explore video games as an alternate means of escape from reality for those uninterested in books, movies, or TV series. The video game industry has seen an increase in the number of games that explore LGBT+ themes and characters in recent years. Often referred to as queer games, these […]

As usual… 5.5 minutes to read. Your guide to the queer media circus. A weekly digest of the most important queer news in your backyard!  Exclusively for paid subscribers every Monday, “The 9” is curated weekly by Taylor Abbot + the GenZ editorial team. This week, a new British TV series, and then: FRANCE. ART. ELMGREEN & DRAGSET’S BONNE CHANCE […]