Party here, party there, party everywhere
And movies, movies, and yet more movies. And Matt Bomer.
NEW YEAR NIGHT When straights are also late-night carousers. Events include “22nd Annual New Year’s Eve Bash,” with confetti and silly string, at Club Try-Angles; “Great Gatsby Gala” hosted by Scarlett Kiss at Club Verse; “House Party” hosted by Sequoia at Blue Gene’s; “Karaoke and Gay Bingo in Neon” at Milk+; “Ring in the New Year on the Right Note” with Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall; “Gold and Glitter Gala” at The Leonardo.
WHITE NIGHT Utah Arts Alliance’s White Party is rhinestone rodeo themed.
► Shops at South Town, Feb. 17, 2024
LGBT IN WHITE Escape the snow with 30,000 new friends at White Party Palm Springs, the largest — and most celebrated — gay circuit party.
► March 29-30, 2024; also White Party San Francisco, Feb. 3, 2024; and save the date, queer women, for Club Skirts’ The Dinah Palm Springs, Sept. 25–29, 2024
BIG SCREEN Matt Bomer is one of Leonard Bernstein’s lovers, and Carey Mulligan plays his wife Felicia Montealegre in Maestro with Bradley Cooper as Lenny. “If your peace of mind, your health, your whole nervous system depend on a certain sexual pattern, what can you do?” Montealegre wrote to Bernstein.
► Theaters and Netflix, now
All of Us Strangers, helmed by gay director Andrew Haigh, tells the story of a Londoner, Andrew Scott, who begins a relationship with a mysterious man, Paul Mescal, and meets ghosts of his dead parents, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell. (Billy Elliot is now a father?)
► Theaters, now
Gay couples’ problems can be just as uninteresting as any other couples’ problems. Divorcing husbands — Billy Porter! Luke Evans! — fight over the custody of their 8-year-old in Our Son.
► VOD, now
Now a movie musical, loser: Mean Girls, starring Reneé Rapp, reprising her Broadway role. “I am a bisexual princess, so everyone is my type,” Reneé has said.
►Theaters, Jan. 12, 2024
