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- 'SPECIAL': GROUNDBREAKG NEW NETFLIX SERI STARS GAY MAN WH CEREBRAL PALSY
- STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
'SPECIAL': GROUNDBREAKG NEW NETFLIX SERI STARS GAY MAN WH CEREBRAL PALSY
The show's premise featur a team of five gay men (The Fab Five) who set out to "makeover" a straight man by revampg his wardrobe, home r, groomg habs, and liftyle choic. And although ’s absolutely lovely to see a film for kids embrace explic gay romance, the queerns of Nick Bno and Troy Quane’s film, adapted om the graphic novel by ND Stevenson, go further and extends to the tle character. Charmg voice work om a mostly queer st of voice actors — cludg Sean Hay, Matt Rogers, Wanda Syk, and Patti Harrison — boosted the show’s lighthearted tacklg of stutnal homophobia, and ma for a seri that had real potential before got Netflix’s axe.
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A marked improvement om the origal “The Ultimatum, ” which featured a st of nttants so toxic that went past entertag and to ncerng terrory, the “Queer Love” eratn stars a group of gay women and non-bary leads on the verge of marriage as they are tasked wh mglg wh other upl, and choose to pair up wh someone outsi their origal pairg to live wh for three weeks. Also, mercifully, this show is NOT hosted by Nick and Vansa Lachey, but stead by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, one of the biggt ws for the gays Netflix uld have ever provid .
STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
From datg farmers and dsters to ventg a vibrator for women wh arthristis, the sex-posive and nately femist antics of Grace, Frankie, and their gay ex-hbands make for generally light fare. As Dani reliv her personal trma and guilt for beg engaged to her now-ceased fiancé Eddie (Roby Attal) spe beg gay, she fds solace groundskeeper Jamie (Amelia Eve). Though Alex has plans to lose his virgy to his bt iend Claire (Male Weste), a queer ex macha arriv the form of openly gay Ellt (Anton Marziale), who leads him to qutn his sexualy.
Director Joe Mantello, who first revamped Mart Crowley’s 1968 play on Broadway three years ago wh an all-star st of out-gay male actors, brgs that exact same troupe, and sensibily, to the not-que-big-screen wh his new film adaptatn produced by Ryan Murphy for Netflix.
The performanc are all superb, and the fact that the st pris solely out-of-the-closet gay men creat for a special alchemy here, as the actors, first tablished their summer 2018 Broadway n, have a faiary and fort wh each other you’d be unlikely to see a mixed st of straights and gays. It’s hard to thk of a better premise for a documentary than a gay porn shop n by a straight Jewish uple, but throw to the mix that their dghter is the filmmaker and you have one of the most surprisg films of the year. Filmmaker Rachel Mason follows the footsteps of hybrid documentarian Kirsten Johnson, but throws a heapg dose of Borscht belt humor, Jewish tradn, and gay history.