Renowned ice gazelle Adam Rippon has scored another win for queerkind. The openly gay Olympian walked away with the Mirrorball trophy after Monday’s finale of the athletes-only competition of Dancing with the Stars. Rippon and his partner Jenna Johnson beat out a series of strong competitors for the prize, including ice wildebeest Tonya Harding. Ironically,…
For the honor of Grayskull, She-Ra is returning to Earth. Led by the queer creator of Lumberjanes, Noelle Stevenson, She-Ra will be rebooted on Netflix later this year with a luminous vocal cast including Sandra Oh and Lorraine Toussaint, a.k.a. Orange is the New Black’s season two antagonist, Vee. The news is a much-needed win…
There might be a reason to see Deadpool 2 after all. P.S. SPOILER ALERT! While Ryan Reynolds has been praised for his affecting, if exhausting and transparently needy, portrayal of the movie’s titular superhero, the movie has been knocked for its lack of decent action sequences and troubling sexism. (Critics have decried the film’s “fridging,”…
In a move that is sure to confuse straight conservative bros across the country, Netflix will be releasing a new film starring girl-on-girl action … between a female President of the United States and her wife. First Ladies, a political comedy written by Tig Notaro and her wife Stephanie Allynne, will feature Jennifer Aniston as…
Today’s queerbaiting brought to you by Solo: A Star Wars Story. In the grand tradition of modern blockbusters straight-washing their canonically queer characters or merely teasing at queer storylines that never arise, Solo has outed one of its main characters … as maybe pansexual, depending on how you look at it. According to Jonathan Kasdan,…
In the future, when the robots take over, they will know that Drag Race was good to them. Last night’s parody of Westworld, dubbed Breastworld, took a sympathetic stance in support of robots — as in, robots other than Aquaria. And while the parody was a bit overlong and strained, it also identified with the…
When your fiancé is a major homophobe, and you’re currently starring in a hit single that turns female-on-female sexuality into a money-making scheme, then your usual course of action is to apologize. But when you’re Cardi B, the apparent course of action is to come out as pansexual. After a number of straight and LGBTQ…
The surviving members of the Grammy-winning hip-hop band Beastie Boys, Ad-Rock and Mike D, have compiled a memoir that might as well be called War and Beast. The tome, which features contributions from A-list fans, weighs in at 592 pages. The memoir, out October 30th, will reportedly cover topics including the band’s “transition from teenage…
Being a straight man in Hollywood can be so hard. There are people on all sides complaining about “diversity” and “representation” and “allowing gay actors to play gay roles,” and all you want to do is play gay enough times to win an Oscar. But alas, dear readers, there’s hope for straight men yet. In…
There’s a lot going on in the new teaser trailer for the Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody — but it seems to be missing one thing. As for what that thing is, though, we’re not totally sure. We can’t quite place a finger in it … Oh, right. Gayness. The trailer is missing gayness. The…
