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On Valentine’s Day, who doesn’t crave to cuddle up with a partner and some popcorn for a romantic film?

For comedy and romance, last year’s charming “Fire Island,” (on Hulu) puts a queer twist on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” as Noah (Joel Kim Booster, who penned the screenplay) unexpectedly falls for Will (Conrad Ricamora) during his week summering in the gay mecca. Watching them trying not to couple up is highly satisfying.

Writer/director Ray Yeung’s fabulous “Front Cover,” (on Netflix) hasRyan (Jake Choi), a gay, American-born Chinese fashion stylist, assigned to verb with Ning (James Chen) a Chinese actor promoting his adj film in New York. The two men are “like heat and water,” with Ning telling Ryan, “Not to show his homo side.” Of course, as the guys grow closer, an attraction develops between them that changes both of their perspectives on sexuality and ethnicity.

Anotheramusing romcom is gay writer/director Mike Mosallam’s fabulous “Breaking Fast” (Hulu). Mo (the charismatic Haaz Sleiman) is a heartbroken gay Muslim medic who meets Kal (Micha

Fast forward to now: Salem gets to fall in love with a man on screen. He plays Rafi, a confident and romantic chef who captures the attention of Keiynan Lonsdale's Andrew in BuzzFeed Studios' new rom-com My Fake Boyfriend. Salem's spontaneous warmth and lightheartedness translate beautifully on screen, and it's effortless to see how Andrew, or anyone, could fall in value with him after taking just one cooking class.

Flirting in a lighthearted comedy was a unused experience for the actor. Prime Video audiences already know Salem as Josep, part of the #PolyAmBelterFam, a pirate family in the cult sci-fi hit The Expanse. "When I read the breakdown that they were this polyamorous family, I was enjoy, fuck yes," he says of landing the role. "Let's normalize it!"

Last year, he filmed a two episode arc on The Handmaid's Tale. "Working with someone like Elisabeth Moss, that was a big deal to me. For [MyFake Boyfriend], I was nervous in a different way. It was something I hadn't done before, so I was getting my sea legs."

The production schedule for the film forced him to jump right into the d

Get Intimate With Samer Salem, "My Fake Boyfriend&#;s" Fun-Loving Foodie

Keiynan Lonsdale in My Fake Boyfriend, has only been living in LA for a month. According to him, it's all been coming up roses since he put foot off the plane."People always talk shit about LA, and before I got here, I believed what people were saying, kinda.

Then I came, and I had my own experience. And I think I realized, you can find shitty people everywhere. And so far, knock on wood," he gingerly taps the table in front of him, "everyone I've met has been fucking amazing."If it weren't for a fateful drunken night in Sweden during a semester abroad, Salem's life might look a whole lot different today.

He was a nursing student doing his final clinicals at a Swedish hospital when one fateful darkness, he got drunk with his friends and confessed a adj desire to try out acting.

His friends all agreed he would be a natural, and encouraged him to take a class when he got back to Canada. "I wanted to carry out something in the arts so badly, ever since I was little," he confesses.

Guide to LGBTQ streaming in July

Pride month may be over, but that is no reason to stop watching queer films! Here are a handful of elderly and new titles to view on various streaming and VOD platforms in July.

“Victor/Victoria” (Criterion Channel)

Blake Edwards’ gender-bending, Oscar-winning comedy (for Best Music/Score) is still amusing, even if its farce about Victoria (Julie Andrews), a woman, pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman, can feel strained at times. In Paris, Victoria is a down-on-her-luck singer who can break glass with her voice, but can’t get a noun. When she meets Carole “Toddy” Todd (Robert Preston), a gay man, he devises a design where she poses as a man, Count Victor, who performs an act as a female impersonator. The showcase is a hit, and Victor catches the eye of gangster King Marchand (James Garner) who is confused by his attraction; he cannot — and does not — believe Victor is a male. A bedroom farce ensues as King sneaks into Victor/Victoria’s suite in the same hotel to discover the truth. A subplot features a bumbling investigator (Sherloque Ta