Lavender Men

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Lavender Men

2025

1h 39m

Drama

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Taffeta, a contemporary queer person of color, summons Abraham Lincoln to perform an elaborate historical fantasia within her own head, only to learn that she can't hide from her own present-day demons in the shadows of someone else's past.

William Bibbiani

TheWrap

05/04/2025

A film with potent ideas, inner conflict, historical imagination, dramatic challenge, queer power, human fragility, humor, sex, pathos.

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Chris Azzopardi

New York Times

05/01/2025

Tonal whiplash — farcical comedy, heavy drama, even a musical number — undermines the film’s emotional stakes.

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

Jun 20

You will have to rise to its level because it will never make itself more approachable for you. If you can engage with the work, it is achingly moving and memorable.

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Patrick McDonald

HollywoodChicago.com

05/14/2025

4.5/5

This is amazing creativity, in taking the Gay-braham Lincoln theme & turning it into allegory for finding one's self, in which the history of America is essentially a template for the depth, breath and journey of identity & acceptance. Old Rail Splitter!

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Carmen Paddock

MovieJawn

05/12/2025

Lavender Men speaks to the importance of one person rewriting history, thereby discovering their own path forward. Whatever one’s lived experience is, and no matter what the sexuality of a president is, this is a very powerful possibility to explore.

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John Paul King

Washington Blade

05/09/2025

Refreshingly unpretentious, acknowledging its own campiness without undercutting the authenticity of the voice which drives it – which is, of course, Mason’s.

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Synopsis

Taffeta, a contemporary queer person of color, summons Abraham Lincoln to perform an elaborate historical fantasia within her own head, only to learn that she can't hide from her own present-day demons in the shadows of someone else's past.

Director: Lovell Holder
Producer: Mia Chang, Mia Ellis, Lovell Holder, Roger Q. Mason
Screenwriter: Lovell Holder, Roger Q. Mason
Production Co: CarJack Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 2, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 39m