Film and Television·GALECA Dorian Awards·LGBTQ+ Jacob Tierney’s Heated Rivalry scores a slapshot in GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 18th Dorian TV Awards 2026 by Neil Baker 15th August 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Geronto (review) – Sherwood and Pluck’s short film is a poignant, beautiful and powerful exploration of age-difference intimacy by Neil Baker 15th August 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance TV Choice: Live from London, Saturday Night Live returns for a second series this September on Sky and Now by Neil Baker 12th August 2026
LGBTQ+·Theatre Mammy’s House shines a light on untold stories of the Irish LGBTQ+ community during the AIDS crisis at Upstairs at the Gatehouse by Neil Baker 7th August 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ TV Choice: A summer of suspense, seduction and obsession begins in Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis by Neil Baker 7th August 2026
Editors' Choice·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Theatre Pride (review) – while there is much to love in this National Theatre musical adaptation, there is also something profoundly missing by Emma Duffy 4th August 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films The Male Gaze: Courage Under Fire (NQV Media) review – a sublime must-own collection of short films exploring courage in its many forms by Neil Baker 3rd August 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ TV Choice: BBC Two and iPlayer celebrate writer-directors with a season of BBC-backed film premieres by Neil Baker 31st July 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ The Wolf (review) – an observational meditation on queer love and life in contemporary China by Daisy Grace Greetham 25th July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ No Rest for the Wicked (Fantasia Film Festival) review – hauntingly beautiful, Kalle’s adaptation of Ulrichs’ Manor is unmissable by Neil Baker 23rd July 2026
1 The Male Gaze: Goodbye Love (review): NQV Media presents a tender, powerful collection of short films exploring endings and beginnings
2 The Last Bath (review) – a contemplative exploration of devotion, temptation, guilt and doubt that gently grips the audience
3 Ah Girl (TIFF) review: Ang Geck Geck Priscilla shows remarkable skills with child performers in her intimate and bittersweet drama
4 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
5 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
6 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
7 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
8 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
9 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
10 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
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