Lavender Men

Name: Lavender Men
Genre: Drama, History, Comedy
Released: May 2, 2025
Duration: 102 min

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Pride Flix | Release Date: May 2, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: The lonely and frustrated Taffeta is currently serving as the stage manager of a poorly attended (and uninspiring) play about the life of Abraham Lincoln. After a particularly awful evening enduring the plights of both the actors and the audience, Taffeta remains alone in the empty theater, where they plunge into an intricate fantasia inThe lonely and frustrated Taffeta is currently serving as the stage manager of a poorly attended (and uninspiring) play about the life of Abraham Lincoln. After a particularly awful evening enduring the plights of both the actors and the audience, Taffeta remains alone in the empty theater, where they plunge into an intricate fantasia in which they tell Lincoln's story through their own point of view: an unapologetically queer romp through the President's love affair with his male legal clerk, in which Taffeta commandeers all the supporting roles. However, as the evening wanes on and reality intrudes, Taffeta must finally question why they are inserting themself into someone else's story rather than telling their own.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, History, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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William Bibbiani

May 9, 2025

It’s a film with potent ideas, inner conflict, historical imagination, dramatic challenge, queer power, human fragility, humor, sex, pathos. It’s hard to pin down exactly what makes it great, and that’s what makes it great. There’s so much to its muchness that the veneer can hardly contain it, not unlike Taffeta themself. Read full review

Manuel Betancourt

Jun 27, 2025

Lavender Men is a heady and meta-theatrical excavation of Lincoln’s long-rumored gay affair that’s wildly ambitious if a tad overstuffed. Read full review

Chris Azzopardi

May 2, 2025

Tonal whiplash — farcical comedy, heavy drama, even a musical number — undermines the film’s emotional stakes. You want a better story for Taffeta, and for Lincoln and Ellsworth, too. Read full review

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