The Eurovision Variant
Hello, hello!
How are you doing? Eurovision weekend is upon us and there is still time to get up to speed with this year's contest by listening to our special preview episode of The Brunch starring Sebastian Hjalmarsson-Clark.
We've also got some big Queerly news stories for you this week featuring Billy Porter, the Everybody's Talking About Jamie movie and that Hocus Pocus sequel and plenty to keep you entertained between the singing in #QueerlyLoves.
All that plus we will be back (and probably hungover) on Sunday morning with The Brunch - Sebastian will join us for a Eurovision debrief and we welcome special guest Matt Cain who will be telling us all about his wonderful new book The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle (more below). Join us LIVE on Queerly Radio from 10am.
Have a lovely weekend,
Rob & The GDC x
Queerly News
The biggest queer entertainment stories making the news this week.
Billy Porter Breaks a 14-Year Silence: “This Is What HIV-Positive Looks Like Now” — www.hollywoodreporter.com For the first time since being diagnosed more than a decade ago, the 'Pose' star opens up about the shame that compelled him to hide his condition from his castmates, collaborators and even his mother, and the responsibility that now has him speaking out: "The truth is the healing."
Eurovision: Iceland out of live shows due to Covid — www.bbc.co.uk
Daði og Gagnamagnið will not perform in this year's live final after a band member tested positive for coronavirus. Footage recorded during a recent rehearsal will be used instead.
‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ Skips Cinemas, Heads for Amazon — www.hollywoodreporter.com The big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed LGBTQ musical stars newcomer Max Harwood as a teenager who pursues his dream of becoming a drag queen.
Netflix's 'Special' Has A Lot Left To Say About Disabled Lives, Gay Sex — www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
Ryan O'Connell said the series, based on his life as a gay man with cerebral palsy, depicts intimacy as he's experienced it. Its final season is out now on Netflix.
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker & Kathy Najimy Returning For Disney’s ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ — deadline.com In what should come as no surprise, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy are coming back for the Disney+ sequel Hocus Pocus 2 as the wicked Sanderson Sisters.
The Brunch with Rob & The GDC
10am Sunday, LIVE on Queerly Radio
Eurovision debrief with Sebastian Hjalmarsson-Clark
Special guest Matt Cain, author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
Listen at queerlyradio.com or on TuneIn, Apple Music or RadioFM
#QueerlyLoves
Our pick of the best new things to read, watch and/or listen to this week.
Rob
Actor-writer Ryan O'Connell stars in this semi-autobiographical series based on his memoir. He plays Ryan, a gay man with cerebral palsy who decides to do away with his identity as an accident victim and go after the life that he wants. After years of dead-end internships, blogging in his pyjamas and mainly communicating through text, Ryan figures out how to take his life from bleak to chic as he gets ready to start limping toward adulthood.
📚 The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain — www.hachette.co.uk
64-year-old Albert Entwistle has been a postman for all his life, living alone since the death of his mum 18 years ago. He keeps himself to himself. He always has. But he’s just learned he’ll be forced to retire at his next birthday. With no friends and nothing to look forward to, the lonely future he faces terrifies him. He realises it’s finally time to be honest about who he is. He must learn to ask for what he wants. And he must find the courage to look for George, the man that, many years ago, he lost – but has never forgotten.
📺 Innocent (Series 2) — www.itv.com
Matthew Taylor, a 16-year-old school boy is brutally murdered in the quiet Lake District. Five years later the accused is found not guilty and released from prison and sets about helping the police find the actual murderer. But who did kill him?
The GDC
📺 The Pursuit of Love — www.bbc.co.uk
Freedom, friendship, sex and love. Impatiently waiting for life to begin, two cousins are thrust into a decadent, whirlwind adventure. Starring Lily James and Andrew Scott.
🎧 The Smart 7 — thesmart7.com The Smart 7 is a daily news podcast, that tells you everything you need to know, in 7 minutes, every weekday morning at 7am (UK).
🎧 Pseudocide Podcast — pseudocidepodcast.com
Pseudocide is a series about faking your own death. Over nine stories, a bomb explodes in a Sydney suburb; murder is afoot in Texas; a spy takes his secrets to the grave, and a nun goes on the run. What’s it like to live twice?