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Stop! That! Train!

By Golu
Coming out of the same studio that gave us RuPaul's Drag Race, and stacked with a whole crew of former contestants, Stop! That! Train! plays like RuPaul basically taking a bow for the entire franchise she's built. It's not really a gay film in the traditional sense, but with so many drag stars from Ru's shows popping up alongside a few cameos from well known out gay actors, I figured it earns a spot on this blog anyway. The whole thing is completely over the top, packed with GenZ slang, loud flashy visuals, and humor that's constantly winking at you knowing how ridiculous it is. Going in you'd assume it's meant to be a laugh riot, and a lot of critics online seem to be eating it up, but I just couldn't get into it at all. I've never really been someone who vibes with campy silly stuff like this, so honestly my reaction doesn't surprise me one bit. The setup follows Tess and DeeDee, two low level stewardesses who sneak onto the fancy Glamazonian E...
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About Him : Season 3 - A South African Love Letter [Web Series]

By Golu
About Him series from Signal23 TV is something that we are used toot have too much expectations. Most of tenor work focuses on hot and handsome black men with barely a thread of storyline. Imagine my surprise when I saw this season, with a proper story line and actually much less sex scenes. Although, almost every episode had one big scene but it's nowhere compared to what we have seen in the past.

Omari is a young man who runs an NGO that supports LGBT folks in all over Africa who are trying to see asylum and get a better life in South Africa, one of the few countries in Africa where it is not illegal and you do not fear for your life. An American guy mason is visiting for work and they hook up and start seeing one another, unsure of where this is all heading. In between all this, we hear that Omari's grandfather in Zimbabwe has passed away. SO the mother along Omari and younger brother visit their tribe. There we find out and are told with multiple flashbacks is that Omari's father used to be the tribe king. But when Omari was young, his father suspected him for being gay, so the mother ran off to Johannesburg with two boys having killed the father. But now with grandfather also dead, the tribe is looking for Omari to become a king. Of course, he cannot do that since he is gay and needs to help folks in Johannesburg. Seeing how his short term love may not end up being fulfilled , he eventually decides to become king and help his folks.

In almost every episode, we also meet some folks who are trying to run away from the torture and injustice being done to them in their respective countries and how they have managed to escape the atrocities. Sadly, this section is what makes the most interesting parts of this series. This season 3 is a big deviation from previous two seasons. There is a story, a message and a genuine attempt to show something different. To show us a side of reality of many African countries and the tortures sometimes they have to go through. The love story between two guys feel a little hollow. I mean if either of them expected to be anything more than a fling, then they were in the wrong. They wrecked both quite hot though and the one sex scene, the first one in the first episode was itself quite raunchy. I'd recommend to watch this for the horrifying personal stories of various African countries' LGBt members, then for sex and then for anything else (in that order). (5/10)
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