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The GLAAD Wrap: Jill Soloway's new series picked up, Gaga to perform at Super Bowl and more!<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo credit: David Bornfriend, courtesy of A24<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBT-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.<\/p>\n

1) <\/strong>Southwest of Salem<\/a><\/em>, a documentary on the San Antonio Four, will expand to Laemmle Music Hall in LA today, before its network premiere on October 15th<\/sup> on Investigation Discovery<\/a>. The documentary tells the story of four Latina lesbian<\/a> women<\/a> who were persecuted and wrongfully convicted over 20 years ago in San Antonio and their struggle for exoneration. Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2) <\/strong>Moonlight<\/em>, which garnered critical acclaim at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, will open the 11th<\/sup> Rome Film Festival<\/a> on October 13. The film tells the story of a young black man<\/a> from childhood to adulthood in a rough neighborhood of Miami “as he wrestles with a complex love for his best friend.” Moonlight<\/em> will open theatrically October 21. In other film news, Netflix has picked up the documentary<\/a> Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig,<\/em> about New York’s club scene in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3) <\/strong>Amazon has picked up Jill Soloway’s newest comedy I Love Dick <\/em>for a full season.<\/a>  The series follows a couple<\/a>’s marital struggles as they move to a small town in Texas and stars Fun Home<\/em>‘s Roberta Colindrez as a queer groundskeeper named Devon<\/a>. Billy Eichner announced on Twitter that Billy on the Street<\/em> will soon return for season five<\/a>, and released a new trailer for the season to boot. Ellen DeGeneres is co-executive producing Little Big Shots: Forever Young<\/em><\/a>, a spinoff of Little Big Shots<\/em> that will feature “seniors [who] will showcase their hidden talents.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"\"4) <\/strong>The Strain<\/em>, the vampire thriller drama adapted from novels by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, will end its run on FX after its fourth season<\/a>. The Mindy Project <\/em>is continuing its unusual production path with a move into syndication. The show, which was originally on FOX and then bought by Hulu, has reached a syndication<\/a> deal with VH1 and Freeform for the first five seasons, which will start airing in October.<\/p>\n

5) <\/strong>Out actor Alan Cumming will star in a new drama series in development at CBS. Dr. Death<\/em> is based on the upcoming book of the same name by James Patterson, and Cumming would play a former CIA operative recruited to stop a serial killer. Amandla Stenberg has been cast in the upcoming adaption<\/a> of Alexandra Bracken’s Darkest Minds<\/em> trilogy. The YA novel focuses on survivors of a mysterious disease who develop uncontrollable powers and are sent to “rehabilitation” camps.<\/p>\n

6) <\/strong>Lady Gaga announced this week that she will be performing at the 2017 Superbowl Halftime show.<\/a> She sang the National Anthem at this year’s big game. In other music news, <\/strong>Olly Alexander, the out frontman of Years & Years, donned an ensemble made of 86,000 Swarovski crystals in a video for “Meteorite,”<\/a> the band’s first new material since their album Communion<\/em> was released last year to widespread critical acclaim.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7) <\/strong>Tom Goss, who successfully crowdfunded and produced two music videos<\/a> last year, has launched a new crowdfunding campaign  titled “Our songs, our stories: LGBT music videos.”<\/a> Goss has plans for two new videos<\/a>, one which is focused on telling the stories of LGBTQ seniors and another unique “Choose Your Own Adventure” style video<\/a> where viewers can select everything from characters to settings. Find out more at Goss’s Kickstarter page.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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September 30, 2016<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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