Out on DVD: May 1st

Dreamgirls
Out gay director Bill Condon managed to make Dreamgirls a complete campfest while still being totally straight and emotionally solid. While the film is a bit uneven overall, the performances are great and Jennifer Hudson's mid-film atom bomb of a solo number is seriously the stuff of screen legend. Plus, great costumes, kicky music and dishy hair -- what more could you want?

Little Children
There's nothing outwardy gay about actor-turned-director Todd Field's film adaptation of the novel of the same name, but I've never seen a movie fetishize its male lead like this one does -- lucky for us, the lead actor in question is Patrick Wilson (who played gay Mormon Joe in Angels in America). The film itself is pretty fantastic -- a meditation on adulthood that will make anyone with even a minor distaste for the suburbs squirm in their seats.

Mahogany
In a curious bit of timing that I'm sure had NOTHING to do with another of today's releases (even the cover is a blatant ripoff of the Dreamgirls promo materials), the classic 1975 Diana Ross camp explosion (which was of course a source of much inspiration for Beyonce's styling) finally comes to DVD after years of delays. Bask in the creepiness of the wonderful Anthony Perkins as a fashion photographer and the glorious, preposition-misplacing love theme, "Do You Know Where You're Going To?". Truly the Film That Launched A Thousand Drag Queens.

Will & Grace: Season Six
Fans of the show will be thrilled to have another season to have and cherish -- especially those fans that don't have access to the incessant reruns on Lifetime.