Manuel Betancourt

MANUEL BETANCOURT is a queer Colombian culture writer and film critic. His work has been featured in The New York Times , BuzzFeed Reader, Los Angeles Times , Film Quarterly , Los Angeles Review of Books and GQ Style , among others. Manuel is the author of The Male Gazed (Catapult, 2023), Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), and a contributing writer to the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel series, The Cardboard Kingdom (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2018 & 2021).

MANUEL BETANCOURT is a queer Colombian culture writer and film critic. His work has been featured in The New York Times , BuzzFeed Reader, Los Angeles Times , Film Quarterly , Los Angeles Review of Books and GQ Style , among others. Manuel is the author of The Male Gazed (Catapult, 2023), Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), and a contributing writer to the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel series, The Cardboard Kingdom (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2018 & 2021). See less