Pop Culture Fix: Marisa Tomei Wanted Spider-Man’s Aunt May to Be Gay
Hey did you know we’re making about ten billion end of year lists for you? We sure are! Supplement your Pop Culture Fix with them and then you’ll know what to binge over Christmas break!
+ Marisa Tomei wanted Aunt May to have a girlfriend in this incarnation of Spider-Man.
+ I kind of love this. Hunter Schaefer said she was a lesbian in a 2019 interview and then recently cleared on up Twitter that she is actually “bi or pan or something.” Language is imprecise and constantly evolving and this is such a rad acknowledgment of that and our ever changing identities.
+ The Wheel of Time’s Rosamund Pike explains surprise queer twist.
+ Jennnifer Beals didn’t even know she was in The Book of Boba Fett when she was making it.
+ Kaylee Bryant is leaving Legacies.
+ For Niecy Nash, CLAWS is just the beginning.
+ 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
You deserve this. 2/27/22. pic.twitter.com/jTJzWPOfCv
— Killing Eve (@KillingEve) December 16, 2021
+ Yellowjackets has been renewed for season two!
+ Tien Tran is playing queer in How I Met Your Father.
+ And here’s the trailer!
+ Arcane‘s fandom is made by the gays, for the gays.
+ Hayley Kiyoko and FLETCHER pop in “Cherry” video.
+ Who is sleeping with new Wonder Woman?
+ Why queer Star Wars fans are so upset at the new video game saga.
Pop Culture Fix: Make Kate Bishop Gay, Hawkeye! This is RIDICULOUS!
Well I don’t know about you, friends, but I am still riding high on that Candace Parker news! But here’s the other news I could gather for your mid-week Pop Culture Fix!
+ Hawkeye continues Loki’s biggest LGBTQ mistake.
+ Related — Hawkeye: Kate Bishop is a step backward for the new MCU hero.
+ Please allow me to note that the easiest way to gay up both this comic book and this show would be to just make Kate Bishop gay like she has been FOREVER in the multi-verse. Let me just quote America Chavez here: “Princess, you’re not that straight.” Why! When MCU fans are literally begging for queer rep, and Kate Bishop is canonical queer rep, and Hailee Steinfeld already has an enormous queer following from Dickinson — why would you not just MAKE HER GAY? This is seriously getting ridiculous, Marvel.
+ Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe, Ashlyn Harris, and Ali Krieger all joined the Off The Looking Glass podcast this week. Lots of talk about Bend It Like Beckham!
+ It’s the stealth queer storytelling that redeems some of TV’s nostalgic revivals.
+ Fried Green Tomatoes 30 years later.
+ The Naomi trailer is here!
https://youtu.be/V6ea61KmWuw
+ Lesbian TV writer Natalie Abrams is working on a new CW series called Gotham Knights! You know her from Batwoman and All American and that means this one’s gonna be gay too! Probably!
+ The Watermelon Woman and Pink Flamingo were added to the National Film Registry.
+ Disney+ has cancelled Diary of A Future President, which is an enormous bummer.
+ Ashley Nicole Black seals an overall deal with Warner Bros.
Pop Culture Fix: Russian Doll’s Lesbian Co-Creator Teams With Amandla Stenberg for New Star Wars Series
Feature photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
How was your weekend, friends? I watched lesbian Christmas movies all weekend and also decorated my now-snowy Animal Crossing island with a bunch of light-up reindeer! All in all a relaxing delight! And now I am here to deliver your first Pop Culture Fix of the week!
+ Glamour’s profile of Sara Ramirez — “Sara Ramirez Is in Complete Control” — is full of so much good stuff, including that they’d love to go back to Grey’s just to see what Callie Torres is up to.
+ Related: THR chatted with Ramirez about being the first non-binary character in the SATC universe.
+ T’Nia Miller has joined Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of The House of Usher, a modern retelling of some Poe classics. Also joining up? Kate Siegel!
+ Related: Dickinson was a queer dream for Ella Hunt in season three.
+ Leverage: Redemption has been renewed for a second season.
+ Related: The Sex Lives of College Girls should be your new happy show.
+ 18 essential nunsploitation films.
+ Arcance’s LGBTQ rep fixes a major issue with the video games.
+ Julianna Peña’s upset of Amanda Nunes shakes up the UFC.
+ How Chucky cements the murderous doll’s legacy as a queer ally.
+ Sharon Gless on her groundbreaking roles in Cagney & Lacey and Queer as Folk.
Pop Culture Fix: Wonder Woman and Supergirl are a SUPER COUPLE in “Dark Knights of Steel”
What do y’all think is the number one super top indisputably best peppermint bark? I know it’s sacrilegious to not say Ghirardelli but I actually think it’s Dove with the dark chocolate! Please let me know your answer in the comments so I can seek out your choice of tasty treats and taste them myself!
+ This is just about the wildest news I can think of to end this year with: The Knights of Steel version of Supergirl and Wonder Woman are A COUPLE who SMOOCH ON THE MOUTH in the comic! This Supergirl is not Kara Danvers, but Jor-El’s daughter and Kal-El’s sister, Princess Zala. The GamesRadar writer who broke the news thinks its an homage to Kara and Lena Luthor. Valerie Anne, whomst I just showed this to, thinks, “SO WE COULD HAVE HAD SUPERCORP?????” Fair question, PunkyStarshine!
+ Kiernan Shipka and Madelaine Petsch on the Riverdale / Sabrina crossover and that “Choni twist.”
+ Can Sort Of become Canada’s next breakout queer hit?
+ Sex, sin and sacrilege: Inside the making of the lesbian nun thriller Benedetta.
+ Related: The enduring pop culture sensation of nuns.
+ The 101 best New York City movies, ranked.
+ HBO Max has renewed The Sex Lives of College Girls for a second season.
+ At long last, onscreen portrayals of lesbian relationships are getting complex.
+ Tig Notaro stops back by The Tonight Show to finally ID the mystery celebrity on her flight.
+ Zendaya wants to make a love story between two Black girls.
Pop Culture Fix: Jasmin Savoy Brown Is Queering the New “Scream”
Well hello and welcome to your Monday Pop Culture Fix! Does anybody have any berries I can borrow to add to this very cold bowl of oatmeal I’ve been ignoring for an hour and a half at this point? LMK!
+ I mentioned in a recent Pop Culture Fix that the new Scream is gonna be queer based on the trailer. And now the posters have been released and Jasmin Savoy Brown’s character, Mindy Meeks-Martin, has a little rainbow pin to prove it. (Also Mindy Meeks-Martin? Triple alliteration? GAY!)
+ Tessa Thompson covers Ebony this month and HOLY CATS.
+ The Glee cast is hosting their second annual Snixxmas fundraiser to honor Naya Rivera.
+ Cara Delevingne is joining Only Murders in the Building for season two.
+ The Real Housewives of Miami are making history with the first lesbian Housewife.
+ Harlem Star Jerrie Johnson redesigns what it’s like to be Black and queer on camera.
+ Benedetta is based on the true story of a 17th-century lesbian nun.
+ Oh man this Riverdale/Sabrina crossover is gonna be a MESS and I cannot WAIT!
https://youtu.be/G0C2UGMFpVI
+ 10 queer Christmas movies to make the yuletide gay.
+ Le Tigre reuniting for the glory of us ’90s lesbos!
+ Queer films could sweep awards as The Power of the Dog and Flee gain momentum.
+ Olympic boxer Irma Testa comes out as queer.
+ How the Celeste speedrunning community became queer as hell.
Pop Culture Fix: Kathryn Hahn Is Our New Jo in the “Facts of Life” Live Re-Enactment
Feature image by Rich Fury/Getty Images
I think I might need to be airlifted out of my house, y’all. I am on a Taylor Swift spiral that’s got me all the way back at “Teardrops On My Guitar.” I need to get it together so I can start investing my emotions in all these lesbian Christmas movies that are coming out, and also in my wedding anniversary, which is today. YOU KEEP ME WISHING ON A WISHING STAR, STACY! Good lord. Here’s your Pop Culture Fix, friends.
+ Kathryn Hahn, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Anniston and Allison Tolman are doing a Facts of Life live reenactment and Kathryn Hahn is Jo OBVIOUSLY. Here she is clutching Sarah Paulson in a slow dance like her life depends on it.
Photo by Emma McIntyre /VF20/Getty Images
+ MORE lesbians in Christmas movies? Yes! That makes three times playing gay for Kirby Howell-Baptiste.
+ The best Harry Potter novel isn’t written by JK Rowling.
+ Josephine Baker becomes the first Black woman to enter France’s Pantheon.
+ Kevin Can F*ck Himself is ending with season two. Hopefully he dies!
+ The new trailer for Sex and the City’s And Just Like That got me surprisingly emotional.
https://youtu.be/Cy8Zz7Q56dY
+ Kehlani is constantly reflecting and forever evolving.
+ This profile of Benedetta’s Virginie Efira is very good!
“At 20 years old, I hadn’t read Simone de Beauvoir, but I had seen Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct,” Efira explains. “I’m captivated by the way Paul portrays women: in his films, the women don’t leave the subject of sex to men, it also belongs to them. They have a great awareness of their own body and use it to exert their own freedom. In no way are they sexual objects: they are above all individuals who have their own thoughts, desires, beliefs. Sex doesn’t define them. It’s just a part of their life.”
+ Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider becomes first trans contestant to make Tournament of Champions.
+ How Rita Moreno could break multiple Oscar records with the West Side Story remake.
+ Saved by the Bell’s Josie Totah and Alycia Pascual-Peña discuss LGBTQ+ visibility in season two.
Pop Culture Fix: Sara Ramirez and Cynthia Nixon Pal Around at Pride on Sex and the City
Feature image photo by James Devaney/GC Images
Where I grew up, Krispy Kreme doughnuts were king! But ever since I moved to NYC, I’ve never even seen a Krispy Kreme doughnut. Instead, there are Dunkin’ Donuts on every corner. Okay but last Wednesday I went to the neurologist, and when I got out of the Uber a majestic sight — A HOT LIGHT. A KRISPY KREME HOT LIGHT. There’s now a real live Krispy Kreme in Queens! I ordered one entire box of doughnuts and that is what I am thankful for on this Monday back at work. That and also you reading today’s Pop Culture Fix.
+ Well, well, well, look which Sex and the City characters are at Pride together. LOOK AT THEM.
Photo by James Devaney/GC Images
+ Meet Sheila Atim , the British actress who romances Halle Berry in Bruised.
+ Coming out pushed pro wrestling rookie Sazzy Boatright to her best.
+ Nuclear Family blows up the loopholes in our adoption legal system.
+ Russia wants to ban Netflix from streaming gay content.
+ The queer elements of Hallmark’s An Unexpected Christmas.
+ The Sinner’s Alice Kremelberg on how queer identity shapes her work.
+ Star Trek: Discovery‘s queer heroes on finding family and making the future brighter.
+ Ella Hunt and Alena Smith on Dickinson’s lasting queer legacy.
+ Saved by the Bell‘s Josie Totah and Alycia Pascual-Peña discuss LGBTQ+ visibility in season two!
+ Stephanie Beatriz chatted with The Independent about Encanto and also being bisexual!
+ And finally: JoJo Siwa’s holiday gift picks for youths.
Pop Culture Fix: Please Allow Non Binary Trans Guy River Butcher to Introduce Himself
If you have some time off these next few days, I hope it’s full of all the things you love! For example, that pie I told you about in Monday’s Pop Culture Fix that has now been completely eaten!
+ Very cool!
good morning everybody!
i’m grateful to let everyone know that my name is River Butcher
— river buddy butcher 🤠 (@rivbutcher) November 23, 2021
pronouns are he/him/they/them and heart is full 💚🤠🌱✌🏻
— river buddy butcher 🤠 (@rivbutcher) November 23, 2021
+ Trans Jeopardy champion Amy Schneider is on a hot streak!
+ A little gay Kate Bishop history for you if you’re gonna watch Hawkeye.
+ Gossip Girl’s showrunner on the midseason Thanksgiving return.
+ The teaser trailer for Euphoria season two is here!
https://youtu.be/RPz_XktsEFE
+ Reservation Dogs star Devery Jacobs wants to take back Indigenous storytelling — and is doing it!
+ Are Vi and Caitlyn a couple in Arcane: League of Legends?
+ Rebel Dykes: the unstoppable rise of the raddest of the radical lesbians.
In many ways the raddest of the radical feminists, many of the film’s interviewees either founded – or at least hung out at – London’s infamous SM and fetish club Chain Reaction, one of the few femme-centric and male-exclusionary club nights in the country at that time. (They did welcome trans women.)
+ 25 celebs who have come out as pansexual.
+ Gay Santa!
Pop Culture Fix: Sweet Sapphic Santa, There’s TWO New Lesbian Christmas Movies This Year!
Stacy and I bought a pecan pie “for Thanksgiving” over the weekend, and have now eaten half of it. Alas! I hope you enjoy this Pop Culture Fix as much as I enjoyed eating pie for breakfast!
+ I gotta be real with you: This movie is the thing I am most excited about this holigay season. I love Lifetime Christmas movies and I love gays on TV and I love fan fiction and this looks like the best of them all. Here’s the official description:
Marketing whiz Alma Beltran (Elise Bauman) and Christmas tree whisperer Charlie Freemont (Tattiawna Jones) cross paths when Charlie finds the perfect tree for the Maine Governor’s Holiday Celebration – right in Alma’s back yard. While they initially spar, romantic sparks soon begin to fly between the two women as the enchanting tree and some Christmas fairy dust from the town’s pâtissière extraordinaire (Ricki Lake) bring out the best in them and spark each other to take leaps of faith and fight for love and Christmas magic.
And here’s the trailer!
+ But wait, there’s more! Ali Liebert’s in a LESBIAN HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE!
+ Holy night! There’s another one! Tello’s Christmas at the Ranch!
+ Okay fine, I’m equally excited about Mary becoming Poison Ivy on Batwoman. A lot of my own personal interests are being addressed on TV right now!
+ The limitations of the Sapphic Anthem.
+ Well! Whomost is she, Shonda? Is she G A Y?
https://twitter.com/shondarhimes/status/1462809596913864706?s=20
+ Y’all, what a roundtable! Tessa Thompson, Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Hudson, and more: “sharing and swapping advice on industry anxieties (COVID or otherwise), the moment when success seemed furthest away, and the head of state they all admire.”
+ Peacock has renewed We Are Lady Parts for a second season.
+ HBO Max’s 12 Dates of Christmas features a handful of LGBTQs this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pe5ZsywHT4&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=HBOMax
+ Sara Ramirez has updated their pronouns on social. It used to be she/they and is now they/them.
+ JoJo Siwa’s Dancing With the Stars domination is an LGBTQ win.
+ Related: Cardi B invited JoJo Siwa over for Christmas.
Pop Culture Fix: “Yellowjackets” Features One (1) Confirmed Lesbian Teen Cannibal
Happy mid-week, friends! I usually have half a cup of coffee every day, but this morning I’ve had two because I have a migraine, and I honestly feel like I am operating at super speed right now. Excited to crash into SUCH a nap later this afternoon! Also excited to share today’s Pop Culture Fix with you!
+ There’s a queer character in the new Showtime series Yellowjackets, which IndieWire says is full of teen girls, dark secrets, and cannibalism. Her name is Taissa Turner and she’s played by real life queer Jasmin Savoy Brown. Valerie and/or Riese and/or Kayla are gonna write about it, so please standby for that!
+ Queen Sugar will end with season seven.
+ Lena Waithe’s production company is working on a Hoop Dreams-inspired drama.
+ Top Chef All-Stars winner Mel King is gonna be on Sesame Street: “to introduce their first ever Asian American muppet named Ji Young — she’s 7 years old, Korean, and loves tteokbokki! I’ll be in the kitchen cooking with the best sous chef in town: Cookie Monster!”
+ In My Skin: The lesbian romance I wish I could have watched as a teenager.
+ Why Superman coming out as bisexual makes perfect sense.
+ Will a queer Miranda save the Sex and the City reboot?
+ How Dickinson’s Emily and Sue became one of TV’s great queer romances.
+ A Barney the dinosaur documentary is on the way from the Queer Eye producers at Peacock.
+ King Richard is an Intimate Look at the Man Behind the Williams Phenoms. (I am definitely not just linking this so I can share this photo of Serena and Olympia which is not gay in any way but I do what I want.)
+ Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) is a sweeping, profound time machine of an album. (Is THIS gay? I would argue yes, and so.)
Pop Culture Fix: Tatiana Maslany’s She-Hulk SMASH SMASH SOB!
Y’all are never gonna guess what me and my wife got for our anniversary — a PS5! I know! I KNOW! We haven’t set it up yet cause we both have a lot of work to get done these next few weeks, but Thanksgiving break better watch out! Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, here I come! Also here comes your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ I know I flipped out about this on Friday but it was late in the day so please allow me to re-flip out about it. THE TRAILER FOR SHE-HULK IS HERE. I missed her so much! (Jennifer Walters and Tatiana Maslany!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFpT5ZkuLlo&ab_channel=MarvelUniverseEntertainment
+ Another bit of pre-weekend sapphic hysteria you might have missed? That’s Sara Ramirez flirting with Cynthia Nixon in the first Sex and the City reboot trailer!
+ You don’t know the real Tessa Thompson — and that’s by design.
+ That interview includes these photos!
Tessa Thompson photographed by AB+DM for InStyle pic.twitter.com/XxVoWevOPh
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) November 10, 2021
+ The CLAWS return has been moved up by a week! We’re getting Niecy Nash in jumpsuits for Christmas, just as Natalie predicted!
+ Women’s basketball legend / Atlanta Dream co-owner Renee Montgomery got gay married last year and just told People about it last week!
+ Gabrielle Bellot for NYT: How Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre
+ Kristen Stewart offers a rare comment on Robert Pattinson and why he was chosen for Twilight.
+ Related: Kristen Stewart as Diana just makes sense.
+ TV’s exciting switch from Burying Your Gays to Marrying Them.
+ Melissa Etheridge on Rosie O’Donnell, gay Hollywood friendships, Behind the Music and more.
+ My Hero Academia’s LGBTQ+ history and future, explained.
+ The Proud Family reboot is queer!
They’re 🗣louder🗣 and 🗣prouder🗣 – and on their way! #TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder, an Original Series, starts streaming February 2022 only on #DisneyPlus. #DisneyPlusDay pic.twitter.com/5nVUiiCVif
— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) November 12, 2021
Pop Culture Fix: What Is Happening With Demi Lovato and These Lizard Alien People?
Well just when I was done crying about the Supergirl series finale, Valerie finished her recap, and now I’m crying all over again! I guess I’ll just do this Pop Culture Fix THROUGH THE TEARS.
+ Does Demi Lovato believe in Lizard people?
+ Breaking down the wickedly good casting of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the new movie musical.
+ Niecy Nash will host the fourth annual Celebration of Black Cinema.
+ Gossip Girl Part Two? Okay, here you go!
https://youtu.be/6ZEK_3y61h4
+ Cherry Jones is part of the new Apple TV climate change drama, Extrapolations.
+ Pearl Mackie on changing TV norms and creative dreams.
+ For LGBTQ+ Fans, Free Britney is personal and pivotal.
+ And here is the trailer for Netflix’s Christmas holiday rom-com, Single All the Way.
+ Jennifer Tilly is back in Chucky and it’s so awesomely queer.
+ Tampa Baes stars Marissa Gialousis and Summer Mitchell are engaged.
+ Olympic champion and Strictly Come Dancing star Nicola Adams describes her scary coming out moment.
+ Raye Rodriguez on creating a queer Crunchyroll Original, High Guardian Spice.
+ Alanis Morissette’s life is being turned into an ABC sitcom.
Pop Culture Fix: D.E.B.S. Icon Meagan Good Will Headline Amazon’s New Gay Comedy, Harlem
Feature image by Mychal Watts/Getty Images
Oh my gosh, y’all! You turned the last Pop Culture Fix into fish puns ’cause of my dad joke and you absolutely made my entire day. I laughed out loud every time a new email notification came through. Thank you. Here is your first link round-up of the week!
+ Okay now this is something to get excited about! Meagan Good — who will always and forever be beloved as Max from D.E.B.S. to me — is headlining a new Amazon comedy called Harlem from the team that brought us Girls Trip. And it’s gonna be gay! “Tye (Good Trouble‘s Jerrie Johnson) is ‘a successful, queer dating-app creator who prefers keeping vulnerability —and romantic partners— at arm’s length.”
+ Over at Black Girl Nerds: Paula Patton on the sacrifice of being a boss.
+ I feel like I’ve been crying over the ending up Supergirl for a full month and THIS IS NOT HELPING (but also I love it).
Fun fact. For the wedding, Chyler had production keep us apart all morning so the first time she saw me was when I walked down the aisle 🥺🥺❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/pcMprfm2z4
— Azie Tesfai (@AzieTesfai) November 6, 2021
+ Derry Girls’ wee lesbian is back!
+ 17 thoughts Emma Specter over at Vogue had about Kristen Stewart’s engagement to Dylan Meyer.
+ The CW’s midseason premiere dates are here. For your particular interest, Nancy Drew’s back on January 7th, Naomi premieres on January 11th, Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman are back on January 12th Legacies is back on January 27th, All American lands again on February 21st, Riverdale is March 6th and Charmed is March 11th. WHEW!
+ You know what else is coming back soon? Grace and Frankie now with ONE HUNDRED PERCENT MORE DOLLY PARTON!
+ Molly Knox Ostertag on The Owl House, Darkest Night, and mainstream queer rep.
+ Distractify wants to know they’re not the only ones going berserk for Sophie and Ryan on Batwoman. Y’ALL! WE ARE GOING BERSERK TOO! WE LOVE THEM!
+ Angelina Jolie says anyone who wants to ban Eternals over the gay characters is “ignorant.”
+ As Lifetime debuts its lesbian rom-com, Hallmark looks to a more inclusive 2022.
Pop Culture Fix: Surprise, Game of Thrones’ Bisexual Sex Scenes Were a “Frenzied Mess”
Okay I heard the funniest joke this morning at the grocery store. What do you call a salmon wearing a bowtie? Sofishticated! Well and you’re welcome for that and also for this mid-week Pop Culture Fix.
+ Surprise, the bisexual sex scenes on Game of Thrones were a “frenzied mess” because the show didn’t have an intimacy coordinator even though it had a budget of ten gazillion dollars per episode. Gemma Whelan, who played bi badass Yara Greyjoy, told The Guardian:
“They used to just say, ‘When we shout action, go for it!’, and it could be a sort of frenzied mess,” she said. “But between the actors there was always an instinct to check in with each other… There was a scene in a brothel with a woman and she was so exposed that we talked together about where the camera would be and what she was happy with. A director might say, ‘Bit of boob biting, then slap her bum and go!’, but I’d always talk it through with the other actor.”
+ Did you see your favorite queers out and about in their Halloween best?
+ Pearl Mackie on The Long Call, Doctor Who, and tearing down bisexual stereotypes.
+ Ella Hunt takes us inside the final Dickonson premiere.
+ Speaking of Ella Hunt, everyone is just so gay all the time these days!
https://twitter.com/EllaHunt/status/1455718747952402433
+ DC comic artists are receiving threats from biphobic nerds.
+ RuPaul is making a Christmas movie with Drag Race stars – and its going to sleigh the house down. (That’s what the headline says, I did not make up the phrase “sleigh the house down.”)
+ How Stranger Things‘ season three coming out scene inspired one fan.
+ Sex Love and Goop: Lesbian duo Camille, Shandra share insecurities over body-shaming.
+ Azie Tesfai and Chyler Leigh laughed until they cried making out in their costumes on Supergirl.
+ Here’s your Saved By The Bell season two trailer, feat. … Showgirls??
+ Kristen Stewart on why Princess Diana was “wonderful,” but “ironically unknowable.”
+ Carol Writer Phyllis Nagy talks about her new drama Call Jane.
Pop Culture Fix: Shrill Heartthrob E.R. Fightmaster Is Grey’s Anatomy’s First Non-Binary Doctor
Friends, hello! It’s November! We hit our fall fundraising goal thanks to YOU! There aren’t enough thank yous in the world! But: THANK YOU! And here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ E.R. Fightmaster has joined Grey’s Anatomy as the series’ first non-binary doctor. (I can’t be the only person who thinks they’ve got big Alex Vega energy, right?)
https://www.instagram.com/p/COihf1vpDOD/
+ Just how queer is Marvel’s Eternals?
+ Dopesick tells a very different kind of queer story.
+ Megan Rapinoe talks about her St. Paul mural and its deeper meaning.
+ How iconic 60s horror film The Haunting broke the mould by putting queerness front and centre.
+ Stranger Things‘ Maya Hawke reveals how her character coming out helped viewers.
+ From Dracula’s Daughter to Carmilla, lesbian vampire depictions prove immortal.
+ Orphan Black: The Next Chapter will be back for a second season.
Tatiana was just taking a casual walk and ran into some huge #OrphanBlack: The Next Chapter Season 2 news 🤗 pic.twitter.com/CfojmBGZow
— Realm (@RealmMedia) October 28, 2021
+ Elite has already been renewed for a sixth season.
+ From Goop to puppets, how Netflix is offering sex ed for a new age.
+ Michelle Badillo has joined the cast of Search Party ahead of season five.
Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Is Frankly Not as Impressed With Her Career as You Are
Feature image by Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Oh hey there, I’m just sitting here drinking a salted caramel cold brew and sorting through my mental notes to try to figure out if my new therapist is gay — how’s your day going? Probably it’ll be going even better after this Pop Culture Fix!
+ Kristen Stewart says she’s only made “five really good films” throughout her career.
+ Did y’all see that Julianna Marguiles said “stop assuming I’m straight!” but also didn’t say she’s queer? My list of questions for this woman never stops growing.
+ Home Economics has picked up a full season order from ABC!
+ Freeform has picked up Kristin Newman’s comedy pilot, which is based on her memoir and features a lesbian couple: “Kosha Patel is Rikita, a pregnant, salt-of-the-earth nonprofit lawyer, who is happily married to her wife and committed to her work. She is another of Kacey’s three closest friends.”
+ Hype guy Ali Liebert is as excited as we are for Abbi Jacobson and Jodi Balfour.
when Princess breaks gay internet. 🌈 so happy for you both Jodi Balfour and Abbi Jacobson. Betty be like 😎😏 https://t.co/9QVBnR4xMX
— officially ali liebert (@AliLiebert) October 25, 2021
+ Stephanie Beatriz is adapting the fictional true crime podcast Tejana for TV! The first six episodes are available now!
+ Chucky turns a tired horror cliche on its head.
+ 6 rare TV shows with asexual characters, from Game of Thrones to BoJack Horseman.
Pop Culture Fix: Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Bomb Girls’ Jodi Balfour Are One Year Official
+ Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Bomb Girls’ Jodi Balfour are one year official!
+ Mythic Quest has been renewed for a third and fourth season.
+ Warner Bros. has fired back at Ruby Rose’s allegations that the Batwoman set was toxic.
+ Batwoman co-star Camrus Johnson says Ruby Rose was definitely fired.
Batfam ya know I couldn’t go the whole day without saying something! I love y’all, don’t think I haven’t seen all the love today. But yea fam, she was fired. And it is VERY hard to be fired when you’re the lead. Imagine what u have to do for that 2 happenhttps://t.co/XwdvjpP9wv
— Camrus Johnson (@CamrusJ) October 21, 2021
+ Brandi Carlile performed Broken Horses and Right on Time on SNL this weekend.
+ Lesbian singer Sabrina Dias has moved to the knockout rounds on The Voice.
+ Hightown’s Monica Raymund changes queer Latinx rep behind the camera.
+ DC Comics says it’s getting record orders for Superman’s coming out issue, and Amber Ruffin’s got a message for the snowflakes who can’t handle it.
+ What Dave Chapelle gets wrong about trans people and comedy.
+ Related: Netflix (still) isn’t your friend.
+ Chloe Zhao spoke to Marvel about not censoring Eternals’ gay characters overseas.
+ The Supergirl series finale synopsis teases a wedding(!!!).
Pop Culture Fix: Netflix Isn’t Backing Down on Transphobia, Trans Workers Aren’t Backing Down on Walking Out
Did anyone order a mid-week link round-up? You did? Well, here you go. I threw in an Oreo milkshake for free, Sugar.
+ The trans employees at Netflix who are planning a walkout — after the company doubled down on its stance that Dave Chappell’s transphobic stand-up special won’t cause any real world harm — have started a Twitter account where they’ve also posted their demands.
+ Javicia Leslie and Robin Givens are Gotham’s coolest dynamic duo.
+ I wish ODAAT had gotten to tell this story too! 😭
.@everythingloria on the #OneDayAtATime storyline she wishes they'd gotten to tell. #CelebratingArt pic.twitter.com/anxkBD1qCY
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) October 19, 2021
+ Shalita Grant on subverting expectations in You and Search Party as the comic relief.
+ Here’s the trailer for the five-part Flash Armageddon event, aka 2021’s CRISIS!
+ And now, the official trailer for Tampa Baes. (Bonus: 5 things the producers want you to know about the “lesbian reality show.”)
+ Megan Fox knows she helped a lot of queer girls come out.
+ On Margaret Atwood and why it’s so hard when your queer faves betray you.
+ The Baby-Sitters Club showrunner and cast on creating an essential space for kindness.
Pop Culture Fix: Beanie Feldstein’s Never Even Heard of Lea Michelle, Stop Asking
AHHH! There’s so much queer pop culture news today! Let’s just get right into it! (I’ve got a standalone coming at you about the WNBA Championship!)
+ Funny Girl star Beanie Feldstein doesn’t “know” Lea Michele “whatsoever.”
+ Leo Sheng and Jillian Mercado on their Gen Q rom-com romance.
+ Gen Q’s Wilder Yari has joined the CW reboot of 4400.
+ America Ferrera, Tanya Saracho and Gloria Calderón have partnered with HARNESS and the Untitled Latinx Project that they respectively co-founded to create DEAR Hollywood to ensure “greater representation of Latine voices, stories, talent and creativity on both sides of the camera and on set and in the corner offices in the film and TV industry.”
+ AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
Can’t wait for Season 3! #HarleyQuinn #DCFanDome pic.twitter.com/SHgouEv5p4
— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) October 16, 2021
+ WNBA Star Elena Delle Donne reflects on coming out five years later.
+ How the Batwoman cast created a found family behind the scenes.
+ A new season of Saved By the Bell is on the way.
+ The trailer for Dickinson season three!
Pop Culture Fix: The New Scream Is Queer and Not Just Because Neve Campbell Is Your Root
A peaceful Wednesday upon you, friends! Here is your midweek Pop Culture Fix!
+ The new Scream trailer is here with Neve Campbell and a queer main character! Her name is Mindy, she’s played by Jasmin Savoy Brown, and NewNowNext chatted her up!
+ Hey did you see we published an EXCLUSIVE clip of the season two premiere of Twenties? V. cool!
+ I’ve never had a feeling one way or the other about JoJo Siwa, but she absolutely won my heart dancing as a Disney prince on DWTS this week.
+ Titane director on the queer body horror film seducing critics, bewildering audiences.
+ Singer-songwriter Allison Ponthier is the queer country artist the genre has been waiting for.
+ Tessa Thompson will topline Steve Buscemi’s newest feature, The Listener.
+ Beanie Feldstein is your new Harriet the Spy and Jane Lynch is her nanny Ole Golly.
My Funny Girl daughter Beanie Feldstein is Harriet M. Welsch, an undiluted, uncensored and unapologetic 11-year-old! I’m her mentor/nanny Ole Golly! I help her prepare to write her own story.
Harriet The Spy premieres November 19 on Apple TV+ @AppleTVPlus pic.twitter.com/l6BdaY4Si3— Jane Lynch (@janemarielynch) October 13, 2021