In an interview with The Advocate, directing duo Los Javis, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, discuss their film La Bola Negra, which follows Sebastián (Guitarricadelafuente) as he is swept into the fascist army and falls for Rafael Rodríguez Rapún (Miguel Bernardeau), the partner of poet Federico García Lorca.
In an interview with Out, Spanish singer-songwriter Guitarricadelafuente discusses his acting debut as Sebastián in La Bola Negra, the Spanish queer war epic directed by Los Javis, who won Best Director at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. He says he was unsure about the transition from music, that Los Javis cast him partly from his music videos, and that Penélope Cruz, who plays the singer Nené Romero, felt like a mother figure to him on set.
PinkNews reports that Los Javis, the Spanish directing duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, ended their 13-year relationship during production of their film La Bola Negra, which they announced in November 2025. Calvo told IndieWire the split was not upsetting and that they remain writing, directing and producing partners, with their next film half in English and half in Spanish.
Netflix's The Body, a sapphic teen horror series about a ritual gone wrong, is coming to the platform next month. Writer and creator Quinn Shephard, who began writing the show the year she came out, says it satirizes the trauma of growing up queer and repressed. The series features lesbian reality star Gabby Windey in a recurring role as a coach, and almost all episodes have women listed as writers.
Paramount won the bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in February, and Netflix walked away from the deal on 26 February, as LezWatch.TV warns the consolidation is bad for queer TV in the US. The piece argues that shareholder-driven conglomerates favor risk-averse reboots, sequels and procedurals, homogenize editorial voices across networks, and purge diverse shows for tax write-offs. It cites a wave of revivals including Scrubs Season 10, the Frasier revival, a Young Sheldon spinoff renewed for season 3, and Buffy: New Sunnydale.