Arts & Culture :: Television

Iced, iced, baby: The Lavender Tube on Winter Olympics successes and scandals

Iced, iced, baby: The Lavender Tube on Winter Olympics successes and scandals

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Feb 22, 2022

Beijing 2022 was the best Winter Olympics and the worst all at once. It was the queerest Winter games ever, with a lot of out lesbians, some out gay men, the first nonbinary competitor and queer medalists galore.

'The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs' - a Black queer extravaganza for a new generation

'The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs' - a Black queer extravaganza for a new generation

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Feb 8, 2022

Criterion's three-DVD special edition, 'The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs,' honors the gay Black filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1994, whose entire career was based on confronting racism and homophobia, especially in media portrayals of People of Color.

Frozen '22: The Lavender Tube on Winter Olympics, 'Euphoria' and 'SNL's trend queens

Frozen '22: The Lavender Tube on Winter Olympics, 'Euphoria' and 'SNL's trend queens

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Feb 8, 2022

The Beijing Olympics 2022 are incredibly exciting. Among the competing out athletes are freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, skeleton Olympian Andrew Blaser, speed skater Brittany Bowe and figure skater Jason Brown.

Billy Porter's memoir 'Unprotected' - Broadway & TV actor's life story

Billy Porter's memoir 'Unprotected' - Broadway & TV actor's life story

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Feb 1, 2022

After reading 'Unprotected,' Porter's frank, blunt, raw memoir, no one can ever accuse him of dissembling on a 30-year rocky circuitous journey to reach his current level of fame.

Skating into History: The Lavender Tube on sports, SVU and M&Ms

Skating into History: The Lavender Tube on sports, SVU and M&Ms

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Jan 25, 2022

From crime show and game shows, sporty athletes and Fox "news" cranks, our intrepid television columnist Victoria A. Brownworth recaps must-sees ('Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's kid coming out) and some potential hate-watching.

'The Gilded Age' - Julian Fellowes' new New York

'The Gilded Age' - Julian Fellowes' new New York

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Jan 19, 2022

Julian Fellowes debuts his new long-awaited period drama series 'The Gilded Age' on HBO, a tale of an emerging new world at the height of New York City's industrial age, and the often merciless society members who ruled and invaded it, or tried to.

The Lavender Tube on heroes and sheroes

The Lavender Tube on heroes and sheroes

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Jan 11, 2022

Out intrepid TV columnist recommends the hunky gay firemen of '9-1-1 Lonestar,' British thriller 'Vigil,' ABC's 'Women of the Movement,' and other viewing pleasures.

Betty White: a TV legend remembered

Betty White: a TV legend remembered

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Jan 5, 2022

Betty White was the last major cast survivor of two television programs in which she gave iconic comic Emmy award-winning performances. But White's career was much more than two hit sitcoms.

Sharon Gless: 'Queer as Folk' and 'Cagney & Lacy' star on her new memoir

Sharon Gless: 'Queer as Folk' and 'Cagney & Lacy' star on her new memoir

  • by Gregg Shapiro
  • Dec 28, 2021

Multiple Emmy Award-winning actress Sharon Gless shares highlights and low times in her new memoir, 'Apparently There Were Complaints.'

The Lavender Tube's best of 2021

The Lavender Tube's best of 2021

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Dec 28, 2021

Here are what we thought were the best TV series featuring LGBTQ characters in primary roles, not as tacked on adjuncts to cis-het normativity. These series made queer, trans and nonbinary characters integral to their plots.

50 years in 50 weeks: Tomlin in 2007

50 years in 50 weeks: Tomlin in 2007

  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Dec 16, 2021

We could have scoured the year's worth of arts and nightlife articles, but then stopped. What's better than a concise interview with Lily Tomlin?

Make the Yuletide Gay: The Lavender Tube on holiday specials, 'With Love' and more

Make the Yuletide Gay: The Lavender Tube on holiday specials, 'With Love' and more

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Dec 14, 2021

Billy Porter and others celebrated the National Christmas Tree Lighting, 'With Love' stars Mark Indelicato as a gay son coming out on Christmas, plus coverage of ABC's George Michael special and the Jussie Smollett media blitz; all in our TV column.

Holiday movies with a queer twist

Holiday movies with a queer twist

  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Dec 7, 2021

If anything proves how mainstream the LGBTQ community has become, it's the advent of queer-themed made-for-TV holiday movies. This season includes gay and lesbian rom-coms, and holiday-themed drag movies with very gay apparel.

Kal Penn's engaging yet incomplete memoir

Kal Penn's engaging yet incomplete memoir

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Dec 7, 2021

In his new memoir, South Asian film and TV actor and Obama administration advisor Kal Penn shares funny and touching tales of racism in Hollywood, and misadventures in The White House, but turns shy in discussing his life as a gay man.