Gay characters 2024
How do I commence to describe the experience of crawling through the desert of my broken mind in seek of queer characters for this month’s streaming guide, I suppose I could begin by calling it difficult, while also educational! When there’s nothing giant to center the guide around, I am forced to look deeply into every single reveal in the entire universe in hunt of a bit lesbian character and it turns out many of them have been here all along! But often in ways that are nice of ambiguous, not important enough for us to realize about it until this month’s research… and in most cases, I can’t figure out if they’re gonna undertake anything else same-sex attracted in the future. One can only pray.
That said, September is a month with some fine stuff coming your way in general, even though that stuff is not centered on gay women, including stuff with gay male characters and stuff starring queer female actors. Normally I wouldn’t even refer this stuff but… desperate times! There’s gonna be three (3) Ryan Murphy projects such as horror show Grotesquerie, starring out actors Neicy Nash-Betts and Micaela Diamond, which debuts September 25th on FX. W
The Greatest LGBT Films and TV Shows of 2024
Look over the menagerie of LGBT movies and TV shows released in 2024 carefully enough, and you’ll find as many hidden gems as you will worsening cracks. In others words, there’s nice news and worst news — but in the year’s overall impressive lineup, also a glimmer of hope.
On the small screen, the seemingly unending aftermath of the streaming bubble burst from 2022 saw the “Cancel Your Gays” trend push forward as LGBT series ended abruptly, and fewer projects were green lit to take their place. Stand-up comedy specials, particularly those at Netflix, continued to platform contradictory political voices with hugely disparate views about human rights — which created some bizarre situations, for fine and for bad.
There have been reported declines in onscreen queer representation across film too, albeit not as stark as those impacting actors on television. Still, looking assist at a year that included several remarkable success stories from throughout lgbtq+ cinema, the silver screened side of the industry certainly seems more hopeful heading into the new year.
In 2024 LGBT movies, “The People’s
In 2024, the unfortunate trend continued: TV is getting less gay. But that made the shows we did get — the ends of some faves, the beginnings of others — feel even more special. Since 2016, our TV Team has compiled a list of our favorite TV characters (see: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016) and this year our list shows the wide-ranging spectrum of queer stories still on our screens. From complex portraits of everyday queers to Marvel witches to a collection of soap opera gays, this year still had plenty of people we loved to watch.
Sabi, Sort Of
Throughout its three seasons, Sort Of accomplished a rare TV miracle with the character Sabi. They changed so much year by year, episode by episode, and yet stayed consistently the same. They changed the way regular people change. We craft huge leaps forward with a consistent inner core pulsing onward. The era of this sort of queer slice-of-life show has come to a shut, but at least it ended with some of its strongest examples. I feel so grateful to have witnessed this tiny window into this one monumental period of Sabi’s life. As the reveal ends with Sabi entering their next chapter, it’s clear they will endure to chang
I saw Queertoday, at the Museum of Up-to-date Art. It's s strange, leisurely film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me by Your Name. I liked it very much.
Based on the compact novel Queerby William S. Burroughs, the film features Daniel Craig as Burroughs' alter ego, a gay (at this point in his life) American man living in Mexico. The film is divided into three chapters: Mexico City, Travel Companions, The Botanist in the Jungle, and an Epilogue.
The first chapter might as well be called "Booze, drugs, cruising, and lusting." William Lee (Craig) becomes obsessed with Eugene Allerton, played by Drew Starkey. Lee picks up random men in cafes and bars, but finally settles on Eugene. There's a pretty hot sex scene between the two. In Chapter 2, they travel south, to South America, to tour and to search for a certain plant/drug that can confer telepathic powers on the user. In Chapter 3, they commute deep into the jungle to search out the American physician who is an expert in the plant. If you're familiar with the actress Lesley Manville (I've see her on stage many times, including just last month), you will still not recognize her here. Once the