Manuel Betancourt

Manuel Betancourt is a Los Angeles-based queer Colombian writer and film critic. He's a contributing editor at Film Quarterly and a regular contributor to Variety and The AV Club, among others. His work has been featured in The New York Times, BuzzFeed Reader, The Los Angeles Times, Film Comment, Esquire, The Atlantic, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of The Male Gazed: What Hunks, Heartthrobs and Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men (Catapult, 2023), named one of 2023's best books by Time and NPR, and of Judy at Carnegie Hall (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), a 33 1/3 book on the cultural impact of the iconic 1961 Grammy award-winning double album. Manuel is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), GALECA, The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, as well as a founding member of LEJA, Latino Entertainment Journalists Association. Manuel holds a doctorate degree in English Literatures from Rutgers University.