2022 AT A GLANCE Get out your red pen and diary, here’s what’s coming our way… Compiled by Marc Andrews.
Brockhampton.
At the Grammy Awards on January 31, watch out for Lil Nas X – he’s up for Record and Album Of The Year. ABBA’s London concerts featuring the fab-four as digital ABBA-tars kick off in May. Tainted Love was a massive hit for Brit electro-duo Soft Cell way back in 1981, but look out for their new album Happiness Not Included this February. Will Young releases a greatest hits package in May and heads off on tour in October and November. Dua Lipa’s Service95 project launches early in the year. Bloc Party, with gay lead singer Kele up front, release their first new album in six years, Alpha Games in April. Expect a new album from gay-ish boy group Brockhampton in the first half of the year. Rihanna’s first album in six years and Troye Sivan’s third album are both due for release sometime in 2022. Madonna celebrates 40 years since her first record in 1982 and 30 years since she brought gay porn into the mainstream with her Sex photography book in 1992. The book, Kylie: Song By Song is due in April, celebrating Kylie’s 35 years in music.
Boy George’s Fantabulosa with Courtney Act, Mo’Ju and Odette plays Sydney and Melbourne in March. The Summer Camp Festival headlined by Years & Years & Years’ Olly Alexander. Years with The Veronicas, Cub Sport, Ladyhawke, Jawbreakers and Big Freedia plays Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth throughout February and March. At the movies expect Legally Blonde 3 in May. Thor: Love And Thunder starring Chris Hemsworth, Luke Hemsworth and Chris Pratt in July, the much-anticipated Hocus Pocus 2 in October, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in November. 2022 will see Troye Sivan back on the big screen in Three Months, playing an HIV+ teen. Billy Porter, Chris Evans and Taron Egerton provide the voices for The Little Shop Of Horrors animated movie.
Chris Hemsworth as Thor.
On TV, the Netflix series, Young Royals, about a gay Swedish king-to-be is back for season 2, Billy Eichner’s gay romcom, Bros is due in August, and I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a Whitney Houston biopic is expected in December. Will it include her “complicated” relationship with assistant Robyn Crawford? Ryan Murphy continues mining the gay world for content with Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story a 10-part Netflix series on the gay serial killer. Neil Patrick Harris is to star in the gay sitcom Uncoupled, while an animated series, The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder with the voice of Billy Porter arrives in February. And for even more Troye Sivan, TV drama The Idol, also featuring The Weeknd, is due in 2022.
Young Royals. Head to theatres to catch the life of Michael Jackson in MJ The Musical, opening on Broadway in February. Also on Broadway, Take Me Out, a play about a gay baseball player starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams, and a Funny Girl revival starring Beanie Feldstein in April. Taron Egerton and Jonathan Bailey will star as a gay couple in Cock on London’s West End in March. P&O’s first ever Pride Cruise leaves Sydney for a four-day voyage on November 4.
The drag juggernaut continues with Drag Race Down Under series 2 already cast and in production. Drag Con returns to in LA in May, and WERQ The World, thought to include Asia O’Hara, Kameron Michaels, Plastique Tiara and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo will reboot the world tour that was put on hold during 2021. Queen Of The Universe and The Boulet Brothers Dragula are set for return seasons.
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Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet with Dragula contestants.
