Pop Culture Fix: The L Word’s Jamie Clayton Will Raise Hell as The New Pinhead
+ Jamie Clayton will play Pinhead in the upcoming Hellraiser movie.
+ Here’s your season seven(!) Legends of Tomorrow promo.
https://youtu.be/ZHvBjOALQs0
+ Stephanie coming out on Fuller House was improvised by Jodie Sweetin.
+ Netherlands footballer Merel van Dongen tells her coming out story.
+ It appears that Chloe Lukasiak from Dance Moms has come out?
+ Quite a weekend for Diana Taurasi! Named the GOAT officially, baby #2, WNBA playoffs…
At 4:24 am baby GOAT #2 arrived. Congratulations to Dee and Penny on the birth of their beautiful, healthy baby girl.💜🧡#FamilyOf4TheValley
— Phoenix Mercury (@PhoenixMercury) October 9, 2021
+ On The Morning Show, bisexuality is ground zero for the “identity politics” debate.
+ The Imagen Awards were handed out last night, and so many Autostraddle faves — including One Day at a Time, Pose, MJ Rodriguez, Ser Anzoategui, Tanya Saracho, and Monica Raymund — were nominated and took home trophies.
+ Meet Kate Mulgrew’s hologram Janeway in Star Trek: Prodigy.
+ And the Doctor Who season 13 teaser!
Pop Culture Fix: Black Lightning’s Nafessa Williams Wants to Dance With Somebody (Whitney Houston) in New Biopic
Feature images by David Corio and Carmen Mandato / Getty Images
Friends, hi! I have got to tell you that the highlight of my week so far has been sharing with msanon that Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner are dating on Monday’s Pop Culture Fix! I love to delight people with queer things they didn’t know! Which maybe will happen for you today in this very link roundup!
+ Nafessa Williams will play Robyn Crawford in the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody!!!! (The exclamation points are me, not part of the movie title.)
+ Tori Sampson boards Tessa Thompson & HBO Max’s The Secret Life of Church Ladies.
+ tATu is reuniting for 20th anniversary of “All The Things She Said.”
+ The Sex and the City sequel series — And Just Like That… — will premiere in December.
+ The controversy behind the scenes of Dallas Buyers Club.
+ This year’s Salem Horror Fest is so queer it’s scary.
+ Wow people really do love watching Suranne Jones play gay! Vigil has broken BBC1’s ratings records and been renewed for a second season.
+ Jillian Mercado on Generation Q and the importance of joyful stories.
+ Gloria Calderón Kellett steps in front of the camera in first look at her Latinx rom-com With Love.
+ Jane Lynch To Join Beanie Feldstein In Broadway’s Funny Girl revival.
Pop Culture Fix: Julianna Margulies and Reese Witherspoon Chatting About That Gay [SPOILER] on [SPOILER]
Feature photo by Leon Bennett/WireImage
Oh hey there! How was your weekend? Did you spend it watching not one, not two, but THREE queer couples going at it in the WNBA playoffs ’cause I sure did! Also of course Diana Taurasi who I don’t even want to talk about because she has spent her entire life destroying my dreams! Hey well here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ Julianna Margulies and Reese Witherspoon smooched on The Morning Show, which you know because Christina told you about it RIGHT AWAY, and then Reese Witherspoon chatted to TV Line about it.
+ And here’s Julianna Margulies chatting about it with Oprah mag.
+ Oh my gosh these CRIME FIGHTING GIRLFRIENDS. Oh Supergirl, I’m gonna miss ya.
+ The tick, tick…BOOM! trailer — starring MJ Rodriguez! — is finally here!
+ SNL sends up AOC and ‘bisexual wine-drinking triathlete’ senator Kyrsten Sinema.
+ Indigenous Queer Actor MorningStar Angeline paves a way in TV and film.
+ Rune Factory 5 will finally let the gays marry.
+ Cruel Intentions is being rebooted for TV again.
+ How Work In Progress‘s Abby McEnany found freedom using the word “fluid.”
+ Soccer star and LGBTQ activist Joanna Lohman ties the knot.
+ Lil Nas X isn’t a fad. He’s the future of pop.
+ Dani and Shelli have a review of Amazon Prime’s Black as Night coming at you on Friday, but in the meantime, please enjoy this interview with Asjha Cooper, following in Bianca Lawson’s footsteps as a badass Black vampire slayer.
Pop Culture Fix: Carmilla’s Elise Bauman Makes the Yuletide Gay in Hallmark’s First Lesbian Christmas Movie
This morning I woke up to find I’d written “hippo” on my to do list last night. If anyone has any idea what I meant by that, please let me know. In the meantime, here’s your mid-week Pop Culture Fix, the TOP of my Wednesday to do’s!
+ Carmilla‘s Elise Bauman will finally be making Hallmark’s yuletide gay, alongside Tattiawna Jones! They’re starring in Hallmark’s first lesbian Christmas movie! It goes like:
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.
+ Grimes says she’s gonna make a lesbian space commune now that she’s broken up with Elon Musk. NO THANKS!
+ The L Word: Generation Q’s Rosanny Zayas chatted with Black Girl Nerds about the best part of playing Sophie, Afro-Latina representation, and that time in season one when Tina said she didn’t want to have a Black baby.
+ Amazon’s The Boys, which had a surprising bisexual woman supe in season one, is spinning off with the original showrunners.
+ Here’s the official trailer for The Girl in the Woods.
+ The tricky trans politics of FX’s Y: The Last Man.
+ JoJo Siwa transforms into bona fide gay icon with epic Lady Gaga routine on Dancing With the Stars.
+ Parade interviewed The Circle’s gay fave Sophia Layne (spoilers for the season three finale, be warned!).
+ Last night, Courtney Vandersloot became only the second WNBA player in history — after Sheryl Swoopes — to pull off a triple double in a playoff game. During her post-game interview, her wife Allie Quigley stood by and waited, proudly and patiently, to remind her to say happy birthday to her mom on camera. 😂
+ Life Is Strange: True Colors blends a playable indie movie with a stunning treatise on empathy.
Pop Culture Fix: Megan Rapinoe Cordially Invites You to Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi’s Lesbian Sports Bra Tizzy
Hey it’s Monday! Did you spend your whole weekend losing your voice hollering at the WNBA playoff refs cause I sure did! There’s a little bit of that here and a whole lot of other queer shenanigans in your first Pop Culture Fix of the week!
+ Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi did a lil lesbian jersey exchange after the Storm fell to the Mercury yesterday — much to Megan Rapinoe’s delight.
+ Mae Martin and Margaret Cho have joined HBO Max’s Max’s The Flight Attendant for season two.
+ Here’s your first look at HBO’s Last of Us series. Your girl Valerie Anne’s playing TLOU for the first time and streaming it over on Twitch, by the way!
+ Billy Eichner’s LGBTQ rom-com will have an all-LGBTQ principal cast.
+ Suranne Jones and Gentleman Jack showrunner Sally Wainwright were on hand for the unveiling of a new Anne Lister statue in Halifax.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUSq03xsWMM/
+ What Sex Education season three gets right about the Nigerian queer experience. (Also Sex Education has been renewed for a fourth season.)
+ “Bisexuality is a phase? Boooo!” Stephanie Beatriz busted bi myths last week for Bi Visibility Week!
+ Hey speaking of bisexuality: Animated bi characters are paving the way forward for queer diversity.
+ How Lil Nas X made the most radical run of queer music videos in pop history.
+ Indya Moore has joined the new Aquaman!
+ Derry Girls will finish its hilarious run with a third season.
+ The Benedetta trailer is finally here as Paul Verhoeven’s already-famous fictional nun finds her holy calling in LESBIANISM.
Pop Culture Fix: Azie Tesfai Is the First Arrowverse Actor to Write Her Own Superhero Story
Happy mid-week Pop Culture Fix, friends!
+ Azie Tesfai on the emotional hour of penning her first hour of TV for last night’s Supergirl.
+ Reservation Dogs’ star Devery Jacobs joins expanded all Indigenous writers room for season two.
+ Carmen mentioned this in Also.Also.Also. yesterday, but I just wanna repeat from the rooftops: Lil Nas X’s “Jolene” cover is queer country joy at its finest.
+ Finally! The trailer for Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, Passing, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga!
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga star in PASSING.
Rebecca Hall's directorial debut, an adaptation of the 1929 Nella Larsen novel, is in select theaters this October and on Netflix November 10. https://t.co/va3OsOVAtm
— Netflix Tudum (@NetflixTudum) September 21, 2021
+ Seimone Augusts found her voice long before coaching.
Augustus’s parents and family supported her, but others were hostile. “You had parents coming up to my parents and saying, ‘Because your daughter is gay, she’s got my daughter feeling like she’s gay,’” Augustus said.
NYT has never called me out quite like that before ’cause Seimone Augusts was, in fact, a very large part of my own gay awakening.
+ Sophie Santos also cried all the way through The Haunting of Bly Manor.
+ How Teenage Bounty Hunters and Good Trouble challenge biphobic stereotypes.
+ Here’s the trailer for Hightown season two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4xAoWkA5rU&ab_channel=STARZ
+ Abby McEnany was charming as heck on Late Night With Seth Myers.
+ CLAWS is coming back so soon!
+ WBTV writers on telling immigration stories and tackling crossovers.
Pop Culture Fix: Queers Shine on Red Carpet as The Emmys Continue Their Racism and Ableism
Feature photos by Rich Fury / Getty images
Welcome to your first Pop Culture Fix of the week! I hope you kicked off this Monday with a tasty breakfast and are staying hydrated out there!
+ Despite a record number of nominations, exactly zero actors of color won Emmys last night, in a show that featured plenty of actors of color presenting awards but none of them receiving awards.
+ CBS had also promised disability activist / Crip Camp director James LeBrecht that this year they’d install an accessibility ramp to the Emmys stage that would be both visible to the audience in the theater and the TV audience at home. They lied.
Their lawyer wrote us to say the ramp was going to be built into the stage and be visible to the live audience and cameras. Who does that????
— James LeBrecht (@JimLeBrecht) September 20, 2021
+ It’s hard to feel anything but complete fury and dejection reading both of those things, but, of note also in last night’s Emmys: women swept comedy and drama directing for the first time, RuPaul became the most awarded Black artist in Emmys history, and Michaela Coel became the first Black woman to win Outstanding Writing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie and delivered the best speech / moment of the night.
+ Here’s some queer celebs who were 🔥 despite it all.
+ Niecy Nash, my god!
Niecy Nash looking stunning in Chiara Boni La Petite Robe for the 2021 #Emmys 🖤 pic.twitter.com/pAXIQtumzJ
— MEFeater Magazine (@mefeater) September 19, 2021
+ Michaela Coel and Tessa Thompson canoodling and rooting for everyone Black (in this picture).
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUBNDcbhNI4/
+ Nicole Byer in regal purple.
The lovely @nicolebyer on the #Emmys red carpet. She #NailedIt. https://t.co/1kfJro3mei pic.twitter.com/UUHXtQUOah
— E! News (@enews) September 19, 2021
+ Sarah Paulson causing Holland Taylor to lose her breath.
Am I breathing …!?! https://t.co/rh7pWQf8F2
— Holland Taylor (@HollandTaylor) September 20, 2021
+ Samira in a suit!
See Samira Wiley and more of the #EMMYs red carpet looks https://t.co/1w0OcVesRg pic.twitter.com/NK65Oxaf1K
— The Cut (@TheCut) September 19, 2021
+ Versace treating MJ Rodriguez right.
#MJRodriguez attended the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards wearing a custom #AtelierVersace gown. #Emmys #Emmys2021 pic.twitter.com/hmS0hwG6IB
— VERSACE (@Versace) September 20, 2021
+ And I’ll just leave you with Viola Davis 2015 Emmys speech.
+ A trailer already for the new season of Legends of Tomorrow. (This is a perfect tagline for this show!)
https://twitter.com/thecw_legends/status/1438895656194686979?s=21
+ Will Marvel’s phase four “queer awakening” actually make a difference at Disney?
+ Some of the best queer storylines in video games.
+ Julien Baker on vulnerability through music and safety in queer communities.
+ Black Girl Nerds has an exclusive first look trailer and images for the new season of Batwoman!
Pop Culture Fix: “I Know What You Did Last Summer” Reboot Features “Great Lesbian Tongue Kissing A+++”
A very exciting Pop Culture Fix is upon us today thanks to Natalie, who has once again proven herself a member of Team Love Is Not a Lie!
+ Well, would you look at Natisha Hiedeman and Jasmine Thomas of the Connecticut Sun, who got engaged last night (??) and will be celebrating by destroying the New York Liberty today!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2Rh3rF5fc/
+ And here is the teaser for Amazon Prime’s I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot.
Natalie: Did the world really need this? No, but at least they’re making it gay.
Drew: Absolutely did not need this and I will absolutely still be watching hahaha.
Carmen: ABSOLUTELY will be watching, I Know What You Did Last Summer was my favorite middle school sleepover slasher.
Valerie: Making IKWYDLS gay feels like a gift just for me. I’m excited. I had such a crush on jennifer Love Hewitt growing up. Still do if I’m being honest.
Riese: Also I genuinely love that IKWYDLS trailer damn. Great lesbian tongue kissing A+++.
+ 🚨 BATWOMAN SEASON 3 TEASER 🚨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N812li-8pBU&ab_channel=TheCWNetwork
+ Kehlani announces details of new album “Blue Water Road.”
+ Hayley Atwelll will play Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider cartoon.
+ Leisha Hailey is in Oprah Mag talking about coming out at 19 and never looking back.
+ A third of the WNBA’s recently released Top 25 are G A Y.
+ NO THANK YOU to this proposed remake of The Bodyguard — seriously are you OUTSIDE OF YOUR MINDS!!!!
+ Cynthia Erivo will join Idris Elba as he returns to his role as Lucifer.
+ The trailer for All American season four.
+ Marvel allegedly cancelled New Warriors series because it was “too gay”
+ Kat Prescott (Emily Fitch of Skins) is in ICU in NYC after being hit by a cement truck.
Pop Culture Fix: Fox Cannot Be Serious About Making More Glee
I spent the weekend trying to get various people in my life to bite on the conspiracy theories I’ve been forming about which WNBA players are dating each other, but no one would bite! Luckily, on Friday, Laneia told Natalie and I that Ari Chambers is dating Amanda Zahui B. and that held me over. Also of course I engaged in my second gayest pastime of listening to Kacey Musgraves’ new album on repeat.
+ Anyway my weekend was almost completely ruined when Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn told Deadline he’d “love to do more” Glee, and: “We always welcome celebrating our iconic shows and revisiting those with surprising takes and new approaches so, especially in this crowded market, we’re always open to reinventing our best IP with some of our favorite partners.”
The only Glee reboot I want to hear about is called Quinn’s Revenge and it’s 90 minutes of Quinn “Pink Hair Don’t Care” Fabray exacting vengeance on everyone who wronged her during the original series, and the whole time she’s singing like, “I say a little prayer (for retribution)” and blowing stuff up.
+ Lil Nas X thanked “the gay agenda” during his VMAs win last night.
+ Also, Normani, which was either “bisexual vibes” or “queerbaiting” depending on which tweets you read.
https://twitter.com/MTV/status/1437241183667990528
+ Life Is Strange’s Alex Chen is a chaotic bisexual.
+ An 11-minute queer Muslim rom-com that is definitely worth your time!
+ Chelsea Steiner found a Bound easter egg in the Matrix Resurrections trailer.
+ HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot is coming back for a second season.
+ From Sarah Lawrence’s L.R. Staples over at Study Breaks —Muscular Women And High Stakes: Why Lesbians Love Sci-Fi, Fantasy And Horror: “This seems like a strange uniting passion, especially since all three genres are some of the most male-dominated forms of storytelling, but this detail is actually crucial to the cultural phenomenon that is lesbians’ appreciation of sci-fi, fantasy and horror.”
+ Ridley Jones is the latest kids show with queer and trans characters.
+ Here’s the Nancy Drew season three trailer.
+ Niecy Nash and her jumpsuits are back in the season four CLAWS trailer!
Listen up #Claws fam! We're here to show you your FIRST LOOK of Season 4. Are you ready? pic.twitter.com/3WfWAk4mXJ
— Claws (@ClawsTNT) September 9, 2021
+
Pop Culture Fix: Raven-Symoné Said No to Raven Baxter Being a Lesbian, Mysterious to Me!
Has it been Wednesday for the last three weeks or is it just me? Well, either way, here’s your mid-week Pop Culture Fix!
+ If you can even believe this: Raven-Symoné turned down the chance for Raven Baxter to be a lesbian!
+ It’s happening!
It's here!!! Brace yourself for the #GreysxStation19 premiere event, Sept 30 on ABC. https://t.co/HE66qhiA4e
— Grey's Anatomy (@GreysABC) September 8, 2021
+ Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist will continue on the Roku Channel, which is a real thing.
+ Sara Clements on how The Retreat and Bloodthirsty changed the way we think about queer horror.
+ Looks like Izzy Garcia, the green ranger, is queer in the upcoming Power Rangers: Dino Fury.
+ 28 TV shows that reflect what it’s like to be queer today.
+ Steve from Blues Clues never forgot us.
Pop Culture Fix: Kate Moennig Misses Sarah Shahi Like Shane Misses Carmen
Feature image by Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock
Hi, friends! I hope you’re enjoying a nice day off today! And if you’re not, I hope your workday / schoolday is going as smoothly as possible! Here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ Kate Moennig misses Sarah Shahi like Shane misses Carmen.
I miss you like Shane misses Carmen ❤️ https://t.co/zdBiS81cXW
— kate moennig (@katemoennig) September 3, 2021
+ Dickinson’s got a new trailer to kick off its final season.
+ Speaking of Emily Dickinson, Molly Shannon’s role in Wild Nights With Emily got some well deserved praise from Vulture this week.
+ The Kristen Stewart Oscar campaign has begun!
+ The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword got a remake this summer, and kicked off a debate that’s surrounded a lot of recent Zelda games — what is up with these queer-coded villains?
+ The CW has cancelled The Republic of Sarah.
+ BET renews The Ms. Pat Show for a second season.
+ There’s a gay lady on season three of The Circle.
+ Peacock’s Queer as Folk reboot adds some familiar names.
+ Kasi Lemmons will direct the Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody biopic.
+ Why did it take Dancing With the Stars 30 seasons to feature a queer pairing?
+ Lance Bass wants to host a season of The Bachelor with LGBTQ contestants.
+ Nun stories are about to become your pop culture obsession.
+ My personal root Elisabeth Shue answers all of Vulture’s questions about Adventures in Babysitting.
Pop Culture Fix: Bridget “Rose” Regan Is Batwoman’s Poison Ivy, Guess That Means She’s G A Y
Hello, my friends! The stickers I was telling you about in the last Pop Culture Fix arrived; look at these dang cuties!
There’s some cute queer news below too!
+ Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine media company teamed up with the Bumble app and Bailey’s Irish Cream to create three short films about meet-cutes, and non-binary icon and filmmaker Carly Usdin made one of them! More on this tomorrow!
+ Supergirl‘s Chyler Leigh and Azie Tesfai break down the beginning of Kelly’s heroic journey.
+ Netflix’s Q-Force is as soulless as a Drag Race acting challenge.
+ Fable‘s queer representation is a progressive product of its time.
+ Kiersey Clemons joins Allison Brie in Amazon’s Somebody I Used To Know.
+ The CW’s Nancy Drew spin-off series, Tom Swift, will feature a Black gay male lead.
+ Euphoria star Hunter Schafer has joined the new horror film Cuckoo.
+ Elliot Page has signed a first look deal to create scripted and non-scripted programming for UCP.
Pop Culture Fix: Sarah Paulson Agrees the “American Crime Story” Fat Suit Wasn’t a Great Idea
One thing I’ve been doing lately is ordering stickers off of Etsy because it supports indie creators and it isn’t expensive and now there’s always a little something cute coming in the mail to look forward to! I’ve got a couple of Stardew Valley stickers coming today including a little bisexual Junimo for my sister! What I also have coming today is your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ Sarah Paulson’s doing press for her upcoming role as Linda Tripp in Impeachment: American Crime Story, and she agrees that choosing to wear a fat suit wasn’t the best idea.
+ Here’s the official teaser for Kristen Stewart’s turn as Princess Diana in Spencer.
+ Good read from Emily VanDerWerff over at Vox: Nothing changes on The White Lotus — that’s the point.
+ The Baby-Sitter’s Club will be back for season two on October 11th, and first look photos are starting to drop. Carmen was inconsolable seeing Mallory without glasses!
+ Ashley Nicole Black radiates joy in the writers room for Ted Lasso.
+ Halsey’s rock album is perfect alchemy.
+ Betty Who sounds off on Britney Spears and not fitting in.
+ Never Have I Ever star Lee Rodriguez is tired of coming out.
+ Alexandra , Jeremy Luke and Mickey Rourke are set to star in the new movie Replica about “an African American trans woman who has journeyed cross-country from her small Mississippi hometown to California in pursuit of her dream to be an actress.”
+ Manifest will be back for a fourth season on Netflix.
+ RuPaul’s Drag Race queen Gigi Goode comes out as trans-nonbinary.
+ “Anime was a safe space”: On magical girls, damaged villains, and trans adolescence.
+ Kevin Can F*ck Himself has been renewed for a second season at AMC.
Pop Culture Fix: Okay But HOW Does Kristen Stewart Look So Much Like Princess Diana?
It’s the middle of the week, which is wild because it somehow also feels like last week and next week! I sometimes feel like this pandemic’s got me trapped in a Dr. Seuss book. Here’s your Wednesday Pop Culture Fix!
+ Weep for the beauty of Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana on the new Spencer poster.
+ Finally! The news we’ve been waiting for! The Flash‘s upcoming five-part event, “Armageddon,” will feature a variety of Arrowverse characters including Ryan Wilder AND Alex Danvers! I just wish Thunder could’ve been there too.
+ Chyler Leigh is especially stoked to return as Alex.
+ “There’s been fights, there’s been tears”: The making of Impeachment: American Crime Story
+ The gameplay trailer for Life is Strange: True Colors introduces Alex’s love interests.
+ Good Trouble‘s Zuri Adele talks exploring Malika’s sexuality and her liberating poly relationship.
+ Gossip Girl stars want “all the OG characters to return and be queer.”
+ Jennifer Beals talked to NBC about what it’s like to make The L Word for a new generation.
+ Looks like Shay Mitchell will be playing gay again.
+ Inside Rachel Maddow’s massive new MSNBC deal.
+ It’s Mommi Season once again! The trailer for The Morning Show’s S2 is here.
+ RuPaul’s Drag Race has been renewed for season 14.
+ And Motherland: Fort Salem will be back for a third season.
Pop Culture Fix: Stephanie Beatriz Is Your New Animated Batwoman (And Also Robin Is Bisexual)
Feature image by by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Hello, my friends! I’m wishing you a week of ease! Here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ Stephanie Beatriz will voice Batwoman in a new DC Animated movie Catwoman: Hunted. (Also, Robin is bisexual now, did you know?)
+ Stephanie Beatriz also had a baby!
+ Also, in baby news: Diana Taurasi and her wife, Penny Taylor, are expecting their second child.
+ This weekend, Taurasi also became the first WNBA player to have 9,000 points and 2,000 assists.
+ Gabrielle Union and Billy Porter are teaming up to bring a queer teen comedy, tentatively titled To Be Real, to Amazon.
To Be Real is described as an LGBTQ Superbad crossed with Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart. , according to its logline, “an edgy, laugh out loud comedy about three queer high school seniors who go on the ultimate quest to attend their first New York Pride parade.”
+ Oh hello! A Black Canary movie is in the works with Jurnee Smollett!
+ Over at the Anime News Network: Beyond The School Cathedral: How Yuri Grew Up.
+ Rachel Maddow has signed a “much broader deal” with MSNBC — here’s what that means.
+ OWN is considering picking up All Rise for a third season after CBS cancelled it.
+ Never Have I Ever will be back for a third season at Netflix.
+ But! Punky Brewster has been cancelled at Peacock. Boooo!
+ HBO’s Nuclear Family explores a lesbian couples unprecedented fight to save their family.
Pop Culture Fix: Sara Ramirez Is Coming For Your Neck in This Sex and the City Reboot
Well hello! I’m running a little bit late today due to working on some important journalism, but I’m here now and so is your midweek Pop Culture Fix!
+ Every day is one day closer to the Sex and the City reboot and Sara Ramirez literally murdering Autostraddle editor in chief Carmen Phillips, who has been loving them from the second they arrived on Grey’s Anatomy with unmatched passion and dedication! Here’s a lil’ behind-the-scenes. They’re coming for your neck.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSrSIzYLPKz/?utm_medium=copy_link
+ Cynthia Erivo and Michaela Coel ask each other questions no one else ever does.
+ Sepideh Moafi knows you’re obsessed with Gigi on Gen Q.
+ Freeform has canceled Everything’s Gonna Be Okay.
+ The LGBTQ-themed horror graphic novel, Squad, will be released this fall, and has already been optioned by Lionsgate TV. “With tones of Promising Young Woman and Jennifer’s Body, the book explores the boundaries of villainy and accountability and centers on a queen woman of color.”
+ Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevo will star in a millennial queer love triangle series.
+ Jesse James Keitel is the first big name to join Peacock’s Queer As Folk reboot. “Keitel will play a trans, semi-reformed party girl who is struggling to grow up.”
+ Queer actors are finally playing queer roles. Next up: More chances to play it straight?
+ Billie Jean King is on NPR’s Fresh Air this week.
+ Fionna and Cake — Finn and Jake’s gender-swapped Adventure Time characters — are coming to HBO Max!
Is there romantic tension between Olivia and Paula?
Sydney: I keep reading that. To be honest, when we were doing it, I never thought of it. I didn’t even think about doing it. And now I’m watching, going, “Oh. Oh wow, Olivia.”
Brittany: Paula having this experience with someone else when she’s supposed to be bonding with her best friend, I think that totally leans into it and kind of insinuates a romantic tension. I’ve definitely had people ask as well.
Pop Culture Fix: Lily Cole Is Not Straight, Thank You and Good Day!
Feature image by John Phillips/Getty Images
It’s Monday Pop Culture Fix time, rainbow sno-cones!
+ In a new interview with the Sunday Times Style, British supermodel Lily Cole came out as queer, saying:
“I like that word [queer] because of its openness, because I think all those boundaries are quite rigid. I have lots of friends who identify as bisexual, lesbian or whatever, who also identify as queer… I’ve always been quite private about my private life, consciously, and I want to continue to be, so I don’t feel the need to be explicit. At the same time I feel the need to acknowledge that I am not straight.”
+ If you want to shop Paula and Olivia’s “seemingly nonchalant” White Lotus style, PopSugar’s got you covered. (Show writer/creator Mike White agrees their relationship is weird. In a post-mortem with Vulture he called it “a friendship… or whatever it is.”)
+ The first four episodes of Grace and Frankie’s final season are here.
Grace and Frankie fans, we have something special for you — four new episodes from Season 7 are now streaming!
And more episodes are on the way! pic.twitter.com/XYPZuvyI9A
— Netflix (@netflix) August 13, 2021
+ FX has ordered American Love Story and American Sports Story spin-offs from Ryan Murphy, for some reason.
+ Netflix’s all-queer superhero team, Q-Force, got a full trailer last week. The voice cast includes Sean Hayes, Wanda Sykes, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Cole, David Harbour, Patti Harrison, and Matt Rogers.
+ Go Inside the inclusive casting process for RuPaul’s Drag Race, Queer Eye and Top Chef.
+ Y: The Last Man team on exploring gender and identity in the new Hulu/FX series.
+ St. Vincent threatens to devour Annie Clark in the trailer for The Nowhere Inn.
Pop Culture Fix: Halle Berry’s Jackie Justice Is Queer in Her New MMA Movie, Way to Bury the Lead Internet
Feature image by Prince Williams/Wireimage
This is a really excellent Pop Culture Fix — let’s just dive in!
+ I can’t believe the internet buried the most important piece of information about this new Halle Berry movie it was going berserk over yesterday! This is why we need independent queer media! So, Halle Berry talked to EW about her directorial debut in her new film, Bruised, a story centering a disgraced MMA fighter (named Jackie Justice!) looking for one last chance. And here, on casting:
and a statuesque British stage actress named Sheila Atim as Bobbi “Buddhakan” Berroa, the reluctant trainer who also becomes her love interest.
Carmen has already called the review, if she makes it through the movie alive!
+ Here’s your first look at HBO Max’s new Pretty Little Liars.
+ Aretha Franklin’s biopic, Respect, opens with a purposely queer moment.
+ Good Trouble star Sherry Cola joins Adele Lim’s R-rated comedy: Cola will play one of the four leads, “As the women at the center of the film travel through the region, their experience becomes one of bonding, friendship, belonging and no-holds-barred wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.”
+ Speaking of! Here’s a sneak peek at tonight’s Good Trouble.
+ Lil Nas X turned down a role on Euphoria.
+ Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is finally coming to theaters.
+ Beanie Feldstein will star in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl. And I just gotta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDtJmmPcCM&ab_channel=MusicOfGlee
God. I will miss you forever, Naya.
Pop Culture Fix: Wow, That Sue Bird / Megan Rapinoe Gold Medal Kiss Made Straight People Go Berserk
Howdy, howdy, howdy — here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ On Saturday night, right after Team USA won another gold medal in women’s basketball, Sue Bird kissed Megan Rapinoe on the sidelines, and our traffic went THROUGH THE ROOF.
Riese thought we were under attack. It was our biggest sudden traffic spike since we started tracking real-time traffic in 2018. We got over ten thousand views in ten minutes at midnight on a Saturday, which is usually the slowest hour of the week. Luckily it was just straight people frantically Googling what they did not know and landing on Autostraddle dot com.
Last night @autostraddle had its biggest traffic spike ever when sue bird kissed Megan Rapinoe and for five minutes the entire world was googling “Olympics basketball gay” https://t.co/UAbcltyVGx
— riese (@autowin) August 8, 2021
I would be remiss not to also mention that four of the five starters on Team USA — Brittney Griner, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, and Sue Bird — are gay, gay, gay, and so is their often-times six man, Chelsea Gray. And so is 3 x 3 gold medal winner Stefanie Dolson. So! 🏀🌈
+ How Gossip Girl broke the fantasy of being the world’s most special girl.
+ I am so torn between being constantly annoyed at everything Ryan Murphy touches and also really wanting to watch American Crime Story: Impeachment. Here’s the first teaser Beanie Feldstein is doing nothing to quell my curiosity.
+ And also here’s the trailer for Diary of a Future President season two!
+ If everything’s a little bit gay, what happens to queer film and TV?
+ Dominic Fike, Minka Kelly, and Demetrius ‘Lil Meech’ Flenory Jr are joining the cast of Euphoria.
+ Jennifer Beals talked to EW about Bette’s season two love journey on Generation Q.
+ This NYT profile of Ashley Nicole Black is an excellent read to kick off your week.
+ Also: Margot Robbie really did that foot escape in Suicide Squad 2.
+ Why is The Owl House so far ahead of the rest of Disney when it comes to queer representation?
+ Jes Macallan on her directorial debut in last night’s “wackadoo” Legends of Tomorrow.
+ Ellen’s goodbyes begin next month.
+ Elliot Page will be honored at OutFest with the LGBTQ film festival’s annual Achievement Award.
Pop Culture Fix: Aubrey Plaza’s Got Major Imposter Syndrome (GAY!) in Her New Hulu Dark Comedy
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Oh well hello there, and welcome to your midweek Pop Culture Fix!
+ Aubrey Plaza’s got a new dark comedy, Olga Dies Dreaming, coming to Hulu!
Plaza will star in the title role as Olga, a renowned wedding planner whose surface successes mask a darker interior. For Olga, the pursuit of perfection has become a compulsive survival mechanism as she tries to climb as far from her past as she can. Still, she can’t shake the feeling that the important people she knows don’t see her as their equals and this nagging sense that her success is an illusion always leaves her wanting more.
+ The Chi has been renewed for a fifth season.
+ Carmen’s calling it: Charlotte’s kid is queer in the new SATC.
+ King Princess is teaming up with… Birkenstock?? It’s all happening 90s gays!
+ The Advocate’s got an exclusive clip of Raven-Symoné on Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts.
+ Here’s the first look at Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky in American Crime Story: Impeachment.
+ Tig Notaro and Jason Sudeikis find comedy amid chaos.
+ My Hero Academia’s most hated character might be its first bisexual.
+ Lucy Hale is on the first episode of The Demi Lovato Show and not only did she spoil the ending of Pretty Little Liars for Demi (they were like, “NO! NO! I’M ONLY ON SEASON THREE!” somehow in 2021 😂), she also finally agreed Aria and Ezra was a fucking mess and should never have happened. VINDICATION!