The Queer Review 2025 – LGBTQ+ highlights of the year As 2025 draws to a close, we invite some friends of The Queer Review, including prominent creators, performers, and activists to share the LGBTQ+ culture that has sustained, stimulated, moved, insp…

The Queer Review 2025 – LGBTQ+ highlights of the year #TheQueerReview2025 #TheQueerReview thequeerreview.com/2025/12/24/t...

The Queer Review 2025 – LGBTQ+ highlights of the year As 2025 draws to a close, we invite some friends of The Queer Review, including prominent creators, performers, and activists to share the LGBTQ+ culture that has sustained, stimulated, moved, insp…

Assembling this annual #LGBTQ+ highlights of the year is in fact always a highlight of my year! Love all the recommendations & the thought that goes into these contributions. Hope you discover something new here too! #TheQueerReview2025 #TheQueerReview thequeerreview.com/2025/12/24/t...

ANIMAL – a new queer bar in Brooklyn - is Singer-songwriter, indie pop icon & DJ @brightlightx2.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

The coming out scene in season 1, episode 8 of English Teacher on FX/Hulu is filmmaker & The Queer Review’s senior film critic
@glenngaylord.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

in the interval directed by æryka jourdaine hollis o’neil is @mixnyc.bsky.social co-director @blakepruitt.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview #queerfilm #queersky

Queer as Folklore by @sachacoward.bsky.social published by @unbounders.bsky.social is activist & Queer Talk podcast co-host @mufseen.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

God Is Good written & performed by Jeremy Pope & directed by C Prinz is writer, filmmaker, actor & activist Timothy Ware-Hill’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheAueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

Model Home by @riverssolomon.bsky.social published by MCD is artist, actor & filmmaker Lío Mehiel’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

The 20th anniversary production of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys featuring @teddyhinde.bsky.social is actor Sam Zelaya’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview #Theatre

Mason Alexander Park’s The Pansy Craze is KAOS star Misia Butler’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... @masonalexanderpark.bsky.social #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

Greek Expectations: An Evening with Soulla @sohotheatre.bsky.social is playwright, performer, producer & director Alexis Gregory’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview

Sam Ashby’s Sanctuary at San Mei gallery in London is Gay Bar & Deep House author Jeremy Atherton Lin’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is wearing a disney+ logo Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is wearing a disney+ logo

Agatha All Along is queer adult filmmaker, producer & curator @shinelouise.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview #AgathaAllAlong

Read @schlockvalue.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlights of 2024 including rep screening series & Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers starring Holly Woodlawn: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

Gedde Watanabe in East West Players’ production of Pacific Overtures is Oscar-nominated filmmaker Arthur Dong’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

“My top film of 2024 is without a doubt Sandi DuBowski’s miraculous new documentary Sabbath Queen.“ - queer film historian, writer, archivist, & filmmaker @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths & Monsters by @sachacoward.bsky.social published by @unbounders.bsky.social is photographer & filmmaker @dustyrebel.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

The work of performance artist @ron-athey.bsky.social is actor Guillermo Díaz’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

Idlewild by @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social published by The Overlook Press is filmmaker Todd Stephens’ #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

Will & Harper directed by Josh Greenbaum & produced by Samantha Apfel is filmmaker & producer Jen Markowitz’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of the year: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #WillAndHarper #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

The triumphant return of @mixnyc.bsky.social & the feature film Amusement Park (Parque de Diversões) directed by @ricardoalvesjr.bsky.social are filmmaker @toddverow.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ highlights of the year: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #MIXNYC #TheQueerReview

The Betrayal of Thomas True by @ajwestauthor.bsky.social published by @orendabooks.bsky.social is author @mattcainwriter.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

Actor Justice Smith in film stills from I Saw The TV Glow & The American Society of Magical Negroes.

The work of Black queer actor Justice Smith in Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow & Kobi Libii’s The American Society of Magical Negroes is performer Jonathan Burke’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview #JusticeSmith

A series of stills from the film National Anthem featuring young queer people in a rural Midwest desert setting.

National Anthem directed by Luke Gilford starring Eve Lindley, Charlie Plummer & @masonalexanderpark.bsky.social is actor, writer & director @shakeenz.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview #queerfilm

A montage of three images of the two lead characters from the film FEMME featuring a Black man in drag & a white man with tattoos on his torso.

Femme written & directed by Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping is filmmaker @brucelabruce.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview #Femme #BruceLaBruce #queerfilm #queersky

A college of books published by Dopamine Books

Dopamine Books queer literary organization is filmmaker is artist, director & producer Zackary Drucker’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview #QueerBooks #LGBTQbooks #queersky

A portrait of activist Alok Vaid-Menon, the subject of Alex Hedison’s short documentary film Alok. They are wearing a pink T-shirt & have pink hair.

Alex Hedison’s short film Alok, a portrait of activist Alok Vaid-Menon, is actor Jelani Alladin’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #Alok #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

A production photo of writer-star Cole Escola in character as Mary Todd Lincoln looking animated, wearing her hair in side buns & a long black buttoned up dress clasped with a broach at the collar.

Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! on Broadway is writer, actor, comedian @drewdroege.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview #Theatre #Broadway #OhMary

A woman with blonde hair anxiously takes a drag on her cigarette in Castration Movie Anthology Part I – directed by Louise Weard

Castration Movie Anthology Part I directed by @weard.moe is The People’s Joker filmmaker @veradrew22.bsky.social’s #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

Cover of of Our Lady J’s single “Future of Us” featuring Our Lady J standing in bleak looking field flanked by two mysterious figures wearing skull masks, horns, draped in robes.

“Future of Us” by Our Lady J featuring New York City Gay Men’s Chorus - “a stirring, healing anthem for our times” - is The Queer Review’s Founder & Editor @jameskleinmann.com’s #LGBTQ+ highlight of the year. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview #TheQueerReview2024 #OurLadyJ