Golden Globe Nominees Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz & More on Their Acclaimed Projects
Author: Tracy E. Gilchrist
It was a big year for movies and TV centering stories about queer, BIPOC people, and women. Even with production closed for much of the year due to the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA striking for protections for artists, from Netflix’s Rustin
Aminah Nieves as Teonna Rainwater in 1923
Paramount+
Steven Yeun as Danny and Ali Wong as Amy in Beef
Netflix
Riley Keough as Daisy Jones in Daisy Jones & the Six
Prime Video
Rachel Weisz as Elliot Mantle in Dead Ringers
Prime Video
Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin and Johnny Ramey as Elias Taylor in Rustin
Netflix
Natalie Portman as Elizabeth and Julianne Moore as Gracie in May December
Netflix
Alex Borstein as Susie and Rachel Brosnahan as Midge in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Prime Video
Jennifer Lawrence as Maddie in No Hard Feelings
Sony Pictures
Emma Stone as Bella in Poor Things
Searchlight Pictures
Though we chatted with the Ted Lasso
From creator Ron Nyswaner, Showtime’s Fellow Travelers draws a through line from the McCarthy era and the Lavender Scare to the AIDS epidemic to today with its eerie depiction of history repeating. Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey star as clandestine lovers on Capitol Hill where they orbit McCarthy and Roy Cohn. Through characters played by Jelani Alladin and Noah J. Ricketts, Fellow Travelers investigates additional scrutiny Black queer people and drag artists historically face. Nyswaner talked to Advocate Channel about telling queer history at a time when craven politicians seek to erase our stories and why depicting gay sex on screen is a political act.
Original Article on The Advocate
Author: Tracy E. Gilchrist
