We call this the Hot Winter Issue. Because nothing here feels cold.

The new issue brings interviews, long reads, and visual stories from London and beyond. Our cover story, Becoming Choriza May, traces drag, migration, language, and the search for creative belonging. Alongside it are in depth conversations with Alex Roque on intimacy in live performance, Stephen Tracey on time and discipline, Dusty Limits on humour and contradiction, Kim Rub on power and longevity inside fetish work, Vadim Romanov on visibility and balance in public life, and filmmaker Marcelo Caetano on shaping queer cinema through intimacy and ethics.

Inside the issue, film and theatre sit side by side. A visual essay, Avatar Enters a Darker Chapter, looks closely at Avatar: Fire and Ash and its shift in tone. Film writing explores Baby through its long making and emotional pressure, and Koupepia Still at the Table, a quiet study of family ritual, memory, and unspoken tension shaped around food.

Theatre coverage moves between close rooms and larger stages. Two Princes in the Room follows The Fit Prince as performance, partnership, and rivalry blur on stage. Iffy Already Perfect questions discipline, self improvement, and the urge to be fixed. A play review of Daniel’s Husband examines intimacy and restraint under emotional pressure, while Dany and Thomas Make Wilder revisits collaboration, trust, and sincerity in work built through closeness.

Across the pages, the magazine opens space for wider reflection. Unchained: Fetish in Film maps desire, control, and power across queer cinema history. To Sing or Not to Sing reflects on voice, fear, exposure, and queer musicianship. When Home Is No Longer Safe investigates LGBTQIA+ homelessness in the UK, tracing rejection and gaps in support. When Your Hair Reacts to Change looks at the body, environment, and relocation through hair health and care.

Seventeen features, essays, and reviews sit together in this issue, allowing film, theatre, reportage, and personal reflection to share the same attention.

Printed in full colour on premium paper, Flicker Magazine Issue 3 is available now.

Winter outside. Heat on the page.

Issue 3 brings interviews, film, and theatre writing shaped by desire, presence, and the heat of lived queer experience.

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