Stories worth losing yourself in. Deep dives into gay visual culture, the art of the male form, and the platforms that actually deliver what they promise.
My Beautiful Laundrette was made for television. Channel 4 commissioned it, Hanif Kureishi wrote it in six weeks, Stephen Frears shot it in six week...
River Phoenix died two years after My Own Private Idaho was released. He was twenty-three. The film has been lit differently ever since — biographic...
Beautiful Thing is the kindest film on this list. That is not a small thing. Queer cinema has often felt compelled to earn its right to exist throug...
Touko Laaksonen drew men who did not exist in 1950s Finland. He drew them into existence anyway. This is the essential biographical fact about the ar...
