Is it bad that I have a natural fear of younger people discovering Araki for the first time and being weird about it? I love him so much 😍

We thank you for your service.

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’ Breakout Star Nicholas Barasch Discusses Performing On The Tonys With Seven Stitches Nicholas Barasch is currently wowing audiences as young Frederic in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s splendid reworking of Gilbert & Sullivan’s

ICYMI: 'Pirates! The Penzance Musical' Breakout Start Nicholas Barasch Discusses Performing On the Tonys with Seven Stitches

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Tina Romero & Natalie Metzger On Glamifying Zombies and Assembling a Superhero-Level Queer Cast for ‘Queens of the De Tina Romero's Queens of the Dead is a sparkly, queer extravaganza with enough camp and scares to already be heralded

ICYMI: @joeymoser.bsky.social chats with Queens of the Dead director Tina Romero and producer Natalie Metzger about casting a huge queen cast.

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2025 Cooler Awards: ‘White Lotus’ Leads All With 8 Noms Emmy winner Mike White's return to The White Lotus received a leading 8 nominations at the 2025 Cooler Awards. As expected,

Think our nominations will be better than what we get at the #Emmys tomorrow? Check out the nominations for The Cooler Awards!

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2025 Emmys: No Guts, No Glory Edition You've seen or heard our official 2025 Emmy predictions, so now it's time to take things out on a limb.

What are your No Guts, No Glory predictions ahead of tomorrow's Emmy nominations? The staff at The Contending takes some risks.

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11 Nominations That Would Make the Emmys Awesome Since the staff of The Contending has been covering television for a number of years, we know what it feels

What #Emmy nomination would make YOU the happiest tomorrow? The staff of The Contending weighs in!

#InterviewWithTheVampire #TheRighteousGemstones #Ghosts #Pachinko #MidCenturyModern #Etoile #Andor

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My boyfriend grew up listening to a lot of Björk. And, like, Joanna Newsom. So, all of his favorite songs are about a sparrow getting an abortion.

jerrod carmichael did it again

Which would you consider your favorite?

OMG! I just read The Humble Lover this year 😞

Amelia Allwarden & Todd Downing On Capturing College Anxiety and a Mini Charli XCX Concert for ‘Overcompensating&#821 There is nothing like going to college. The freedom away from your parents. Meeting new people. Learning about yourself in

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When I say I was born this way, I don’t mean gay, I mean annoying

The VHS covers at the video store scared me as a kid.

‘On Swift Horses’ Yanks Us to a Melancholic But Gorgeous Past You cannot help but think about how you would handle the repression, guilt, and heat that befall the characters through

While I do admit that I am mixed on On Swift Horses again after seeing it at TIFF last year, there is something that pulls me towards it? The cinematography is gorgeous.

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After The Perfect Couple and the upcoming Sirens, I need Meghann Fahy to work alongside Meryl Streep in a coastal murder mystery...just so she stars in a trilogy of Netflix limited series with the three women from The Hours.

I still can't believe that it was on The WB 🤣

‘A Nice Indian Boy’ Re-Energizes the Romantic Comedy with the Grandest of Gestures The traditional notion of what a romantic comedy "should be" has been left in the dust of the yesteryear of

A Nice Indian Boy has charm and heart in spades. Loved loved loved it.

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Yee haw 😍🤠

Tiddies out for spring 🥰🍼🍼

My little gay short film is now available to watch! Please leave us a comment on our vimeo link if you enjoy the film. 🥹💖

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Road trip

Oscar party placecards are ready!

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Me, before the Oscar nominations
Me, as the nominations come out

#NGNG Oscar predictions

Michele Austin for Hard Truths in Supporting Actress
The Substance in Costume Design
Chicken for Linda in Animated Feature
Nosferstu in Original Score

Ohhh, the Oscar party invitations are about to get GAY. Well, gayer.

The way this ad for The Wedding Banquet made me squeal ☺️

Film slate/clapperboard for The Wedding Banquet film directed by Andrew Ahn with cinematography by Ki Jin Kim

Less than a week until The Wedding Banquet premiere at #Sundance

Trying to see all the big Oscar contenders in time to be disappointed by the nominations