Gay documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz has built a career digging into queer pop culture, exploring how it has shaped the rest of the world. He’s directed Vito, about openly gay film historian and author of The Celluloid Closet Vito Russo. He also made Tab Hunter Confidentia, and The Fabulous Alan Carr, about the not-so-openly-gay 1950s heartthrob and the flamboyant mastermind behind Grease, respectively. Now he’ll tackle the most iconic queer symbol of all, the Stonewall Inn, the legendary bar that sparked a civil rights revolution for LGBTQIA+ people, in the documentary Stonewall Forever.
Executive produced by Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson alongside his husband Justin Mikita, the film will tell the story of the bar, its status as an iconic queer space, and the people whose lives intersected with it and went on to make history. Will most likely be required viewing when it hits screens.
Ever since the underloved Champions got cancelled, we’ve been eagerly anticipating Josie Totah’s next career move. We’ve been fans since she stole scenes in the indie comedy Other People and are even happier to see her moving forward after coming out as transgender. Now Amazon has Totah co-starring with Whitney Cummings and Lisa Kudrow in the sitcom pilot Good People. Lee Daniels created the show that revolves around three generations of women working on a college campus and navigating cultural changes happening all around. Totah’s character is a confident Generation Z student who challenges her older co-workers’ attitudes (and most likely annoys them, hence comedy). Greg Kinnear and Martin Short will co-star. Look for it to drop on Amazon at any given moment, since that’s how we’re all doing things these days.
