Gay filmmaker Ira Sachs never ceases to surprise us. With movies such as the period infidelity drama “Married Life” to his New York real estate trilogy – “Keep The Lights On,” “Love Is Strange,” and “Little Men” – to his bisexuality exploration “Passages,” Sachs has kept viewers engaged since the late 1990s.

Kutumba Theatre Project is throwing a naughty holiday extravaganza, an immersive pop-up of “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” by Jeff Goode.

Expect spies, kidnappings, assassinations, and much more in Gareth Russell's "The Six Loves of James I."

One person. Two, twelve, twenty, you can still feel alone in a crowded room if it’s a place you don’t want to be. People say, though, that that’s no way to do the holidays; you’re supposed to Make Merry, even when your heart’s not in it. You’re supposed to feel happy, no matter what – even when, as in “The Dogs of Venice” by Steven Rowley, the Christmas tinsel seems tarnished.

Acclaimed, Baltimore-based gay writer James Magruder’s new book, “No One is Looking at You” (Rattling Good Yarns Press, 2025), a collection of linked short stories, has everything we’ve come to expect from him, including rapier wit combined with the most extraordinary observations on the ever-evolving queer human condition.

The holidays always bring out the best in bookish magic, and this year HarperCollins is delivering a lineup of stunning special editions and gorgeous box sets begging to be wrapped up and placed under the tree.