Pop Culture Fix: Watch the First Scene of Heartstopper Season 2 Right Now!
It’s Juneteenth and here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ Cheryl Dunye, Jingletown, and making space for Black queer filmmakers.
+ Elliot Page on balancing trans joy and harsh realities of anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
+ Gillian said you’re welcome!
Always thrilled to be of service. 😉 🏳️🌈 https://t.co/5oA4ZRCNae
— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) June 19, 2023
+ 15 actors who came out after playing a queer character.
+ Not gay, but… gay? Linda Hamilton joins Stranger Things season five.
+ The first scene of Heartstopper season two!
+ HBO donates $100,000 to 6 LGBTQ+ organizations featured in We’re Here season three.
+ Billboard’s queer jams of the week include Victoria Monét, Vagabon, Saucy Santana, and more!
+ Reintroducing Che Diaz: Sara Ramirez character shows a different side in And Just Like That season 2.
+ Jinkx Monsoon celebrates queer people “taking up space” in Doctor Who.
+ Take a tour through the Barbie dream house with Margot Robbie.
+ And, finally, a first look at the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Pop Culture Fix: Queer Shapeshifter Nimona Is Finally Coming to Netflix!
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+ Paramount+ has picked up a new show from Elliot Page’s Page Boy Productions. According to Deadline, “Len & Cub is a limited six-part series dramatizing the secret relationship of two young men in rural 20th-century New Brunswick whose story came to light when a box of photos was recently discovered in an estate sale.”
+ “The gay is here and it’s going to get gayer.” Patrik-Ian Polk on P-Valley’s success, the return of Noah’s Arc, and telling Black gay stories.
+ Pedro Pascal can’t bring himself to watch the Last Of Us season finale.
+ Finally! The full Nimona trailer is here!
+ Can I interest you in a first look at the new season of Wheel of Time? I bet I can!
+ Okay the promo photos of Prime Video’s adaptation of Red, White, & Royal Blue are super cute.
+ Disneyland Pride display pays tribute to lesbian history.
+ Blue Jean evokes the anxieties of being a gay teacher in the Thatcher era.
+ The best LGBTQ+ comedy movies, ranked.
+ Megan Thee Stallion has surprise Pride reunion with classmate she defended from homophobia.
Pop Culture Fix: Nonbinary Actors Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee Make Tony Awards History
Feature image photos by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions
It’s still Pride and I still love you! (I’ll love you even when it’s not Pride, of course!) And here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix!
+ Last night’s Tony Awards were gay, of course; they always ware — but they’re usually super cis, super white gay. Last night, though, Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee made history by becoming the first nonbinary actors to win acting awards! CBS bleeped Michael Arden’s triumphant acceptance speech, but don’t worry, Michael Arden. And, of course, host Ariana DeBose absolutely crushed it while honoring the WGA strike, doing the whole shebang unscripted. Here’s a full list of winners.
https://youtu.be/U4oQeYx5INE
+ Cher and Chaz Bono are producing a new horror film together.
+ New York Magazine’s Devery Jacobs’ profile is so very worth your time.
+ You know, I didn’t expect Elliot Page’s memoir to be so very… Lez Girls?
+ Samuel Lao chatted with Hayley Kiyoko over at Shondaland and it’s wonderful.
+ It was a huge gay weekend in the WNBA, which Natalie and I will have more on later, obviously, but both Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles had their jerseys retired in really moving ceremonies. Megan Rapinoe was there with Sue, and gave a speech about how much she loved her and how she’s arguably the most accomplished athlete of all time. (You can imagine how that’s going over in the men’s sports community, which makes it even better.)
+ Warrior Nun had to hide their queer storyline from Netflix, which is just so maddening I don’t even know what to say about it!
+ After I Kissed a Boy success, the BBC confirms lesbian spin-off, I Kissed a Girl. (I love that Yahoo! has this in the sports section.)
+ Stephanie Beatriz explains why she kept bisexual identity “hidden” for so long.
+ OL Reign’s Jess Fishlock, Tziarra King use visibility as couple to ‘stand up’ for LGBTQ+ community.
+ I can’t believe I forgot to tell you this last week: Beanie Feldstein and Bonnie Chance got so married!
Pop Culture Fix: Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis Hope You Find Queer Love Like Theirs
Feature image photo by John Walton/PA Images via Getty Images
Hey it’s still Pride and I hope it’s still happy out there for you! I made you a Pop Culture Fix to increase your daily enjoyment at least!
+ Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis are profiled and photographed in Gaffer for Pride and holy heck they are cute, cute, cute! You gotta click through and read it, just trust me! It’s like fan fiction but it’s real life: “If you didn’t know much about football and passed these two in the street or sat next to them in a pub, you wouldn’t think they’re some of the most well known names in the game. The chemistry they have surrounds them like an aura and the genuine love for each other oozes out in their body language.”
Soccer players Kristie Mewis and Sam Kerr spoke about what it’s like being a couple in the sports community as well as the impact they hope to make. pic.twitter.com/rTCdsBxgRx
— espnW (@espnW) June 5, 2023
+ The iCarly cast dishes on Harper’s queer romance in season three.
+ The Complete WNBA Signature Sneaker timeline over at Winsider includes some gay faves!
+ Watch the trailer for sapphic YA romance You Can Live Forever.
+ Abbi Jacobson is on Debbie Millman’s Design Matters this week.
+ Black Girl Nerds interviewed the cast of Never Have I Ever ahead of the new season.
+ Glamorous tells the story of Marco Mejia, a young gender non-conforming queer man whose life seems to be stuck in place until he lands a job working for legendary makeup mogul Madolyn Addison.
+ It’s the end of Top Chef as we know it.
+ 10 LGBTQ film and TV creators on the rise in 2023.
+ Is Star Wars’ Ahsoka Tano a queer icon?
+ HBO has cancelled Perry Mason after two seasons. Love you forever, Della Street!
Pop Culture Fix: The Fosters Is Ten Years Old, It’s Still As Revolutionary as Ever
Hey it’s still Pride out there! How about that! I hope straight people are sending you pies and ice cream! I’m sending you this Pop Culture Fix!
+ The Fosters creators look back on the groundbreaking series ten years later. “Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige wanted to fill the void of LGBTQ representation within the world of family drama. They initially thought gay dads could work, but that was seen on shows like Modern Family and Glee. ‘Then it hit us like a ton of bricks. Almost every lesbian couple we know has kids,’ Paige explains. In addition to that, Bredeweg and Paige wanted the show to feel as modern as possible, so Stef and Lena were an interracial couple. For co-showrunner Joanna Johnson, who has a multiracial family having adopted two children with her wife, there was an authenticity to writing The Fosters. ‘I related so much to the family. For me as a writer, I loved the opportunity to write about something that was true to my own life,’ she shares.
+ 62 Years Later, Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine’s The Children’s Hour remains relevant.
+ Reality TV has finally discovered messy lesbian drama.
+ Elliot Page reveals past relationship with Kate Mara in upcoming memoir Pageboy.
+ 27 TV characters who should have been queer.
+ Isis King is taking Hollywood by storm, from America’s Next Top Model, to Prime Video’s With Love.
+ Hulu is releasing its queer psychological horror Jagged Mind here in Pride month.
+ NYT profiled Alison Bechdel and her new Audibile adaptation of Dykes to Watch Out For.
+ Marlene Dietrich: Early Hollywood’s “joyous bisexual” and her most daring on-screen roles.
+ How the youths are finding themselves on queer TV.
+ Disney’s Globby is real — and he’s bisexual!
+ 11 celebrities, actors, and reality stars who have come out in 2023.
+ Why Queer Eye season seven is so relevant.
+ And, finally, Padma Lakshmi is leaving Top Chef which is THE WORST NEWS I HAVE HEARD IN A LONG TIME!
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) June 2, 2023
Pop Culture Fix: Overwatch 2 Confirms Pharah and Baptiste are Queer on Pride Eve
One day until Pride! And here is your Pride Eve Pop Culture Fix!
+ Overwatch 2 short story confirms Pharah and Baptiste are queer. (Also, Overwatch is dropping all its Pride content tomorrow.) “Among the Pride name cards and player icons, you’ll find specific ones dedicated to Overwatch 2’s LGBTQ+ heroes, including a lesbian card for Tracer, a gay card for Soldier: 76, a pansexual card for Lifeweaver, a bisexual card for Baptiste, and a lesbian card for Pharah. The latter two also reveal the sexual orientations of those two characters, as explored in a new short story.”
Introducing “As You Are”, a new short story about identity, love, and friendship starring Baptiste & Pharah 🧡💙
Read it here 📖 https://t.co/Q6KpWaSxtz pic.twitter.com/P6jZ3I0aGI
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) May 30, 2023
+ All LGBTQ+ characters in League of Legends.
+ Saving Face director Alice Wu looks back on her 2004 queer romantic comedy.
+ Somebody Somewhere’s season two finale is a pitch-perfect, achingly beautiful sendoff.
+ Black Mirror introduces five new nightmares in season six trailer.
+ Wrabel on writing Pride Anthem “Turn Up the Love” and combatting LGBTQ+ hate.
+ Where does Yellowjackets go next? ‘
+ Breanna Stewart went home and conquered.
+ Five first-look photos from Heartstopper season two.
+ Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet.
Pop Culture Fix: Lizzo Honors Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll Tina Turner With “Proud Mary” Tribute
Feature image photo by Miikka Skaffari/FilmMagic
Wherever you are, whatever you’re up to today, I’m sending you all my love. And! One (1) Pop Culture Fix!
+ “I would not exist if it not for the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Lizzo said to a crowd in Phoenix on Wednesday night. “There would be no rock ‘n’ roll without Tina Turner.” She then performed Proud Mary and brought the damn house down. She said she didn’t want to cry, so she celebrated the heck out of our legend instead. You can watch a clip from Lizzo’s IG below, or the full performance on YouTube.
+ Untold stories of queer resistance to Nazis take centre stage in Disney’s moving Anne Frank drama.
+ Taylor Swift and Ice Spice team up for surprise live duet, new “Karma” music video.
+ Don’t expect everyone on ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ to get their happy ending.
+ From Bewitched to Modern Family, how sitcoms shaped queer history.
+ The Little Mermaid: How Disney made a classic more queer.
+ Fortune Feimster is bravely bringing queer comedy to red states.
+ Paula Pell says Girls5eva has finished filming season 3 before the strike.
+ 9 winners of the Queer Palm and where to watch them.
+ Elliot Page released the touching first chapter of his memoir.
+ The new Frog & Toad series is the perfect queer love story for families.
Pop Culture Fix: Hayley Kiyoko’s New Single Is Queer Therapy Vibes
Feature image photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images
Sending you love this Wednesday, alongside this Pop Culture Fix.
+ Hayley Kiyoko has dropped “Greenlight,” her first single since her Panorama album. She says it’s “about making an active decision to put your energy into the things that are working,” which is obviously very good advice. My therapist would approve! You can listen to it right here!
+ Inside the fight to degender awards shows.
+ The 100 hardest video game levels of all time.
+ Wanda Sykes on her Netflix special, Dave Chappell, and being a “woke comic.”
+ Trace Lysette wishes she had something more hopeful to say.
+ GLAAD’s recap of the Black Queer Advancement Festival.
+ The trailer for The Color Purple is here and queer.
+ R.I.P. to the Arrowverse, the most ambitious experiment in the history of superhero TV.
+ Both Cynthia Nixon and Wanda Sykes spoke outside 30 Rock at the Writer’s Strike this week.
+ Wheel of Time’s got a release date and some new promo photos.
Pop Culture Fix: Cherelle and Brittney Griner Smooch on ESPN in Triumphant WNBA Return
Feature image photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images
It’s Monday and I made some extra coffee, you want some? Just let me know how you take it! I made you a Pop Culture Fix too!
+ Would you just look at these two cutie pies smooching after Brittney Griner’s first home game yesterday, after returning from her wrongful imprisonment in Russia. I love seeing lesbians doing affectionate things on ESPN! I’ll never get tired of it!
Brittney Griner and her wife, Cherelle, after her first home game back ❤️ pic.twitter.com/29XQfzR7Tj
— espnW (@espnW) May 21, 2023
+ There were so many stars on-hand for BG’s return to the league Friday night in a game against the Sparks, including Billie Jean King!
Former @Lakers star and @LASparks coach Michael Cooper chats with tennis legend @BillieJeanKing before tonight’s Sparks-@PhoenixMercury game. pic.twitter.com/dMU71yGPqG
— Michael Voepel (@MAVoepel) May 20, 2023
+ Oh and Kamala Harris, nbd.
Vice President @KamalaHarris welcomes BG back ahead of the @PhoenixMercury’s first matchup of the season 🧡 #BGisBack pic.twitter.com/Eg70Ikx8dB
— WNBA (@WNBA) May 20, 2023
+ JUST CRY ALREADY!
Brittney Griner was introduced before her first home game in 585 days.
What a moment. pic.twitter.com/WWTgWmgBjm
— ESPN (@espn) May 21, 2023
+ Related: Brittney Griner is creating a new normal for herself and the WNBA. And also, from Mike Voepel over at ESPN: The sweetest look inside the way BG”s teammates are trying to help her return to normal. And this: ‘You’re not forgotten’: The letters that sustained Brittney Griner in prison.
+ Ginny and Georgia has been renewed for seasons three and four.
+ Okay this oral history of Top Chef over at The Hollywood Reporter is fascinating for real.
+ Brianna Hildebrand will be back for Deadpool 3.
+ What do you think of MovieWeb’s list of best bisexual TV characters ever? They had me at the giant feature image of Annalise Keating.
+ Nimona teaser? Don’t mind if I do!
+ Guerrilla Games on the future of Horizon, Burning Shores and that kiss.
+ Jodie Whittaker is leading a short film fund to support woman and nonbinary filmmakers.
+ Okay and also! What do you think of Buffy’s 20 best episodes, ranked by TV Line?
+ Auli’i Cravalho says she won’t star in the live-action Moana remake.
Pop Culture Fix: Watch Lizzo and Sasha Flute Bring the Whole Damn Deal to The Simpsons
Hello from ALLERGY SEASON! Anybody breathing out there? Probably yes if you’re in Australia and it’s not overwhelming pollen time? Hey well here’s a Pop Culture Fix to get you through!
+ Lizzo’s joining The Simpsons this week; she shared a clip where she breaks out her flute, Sasha, to play along to the noise of Bart slapping Homer. On Instagram, Lizzo wrote: “Every Icon has been on @thesimpsons — now I can add my name to the list! Thank you to the whole team for making this a dream come true 💖 (yes I’m wearing @yitty and playing @sashabefluting )!!!!”
+ Javicia Leslie’s got a new show on the way! High Potential! According to Deadline, “the drama, based on the popular French detective series HIP (High Intellectual Potential) has been the clear frontrunner among ABC’s crop of 2023 pilots.” Javicia’s character is called Daphne, which is a very gay name in my experience!
+ Cynthia Erivo will star in film adaptation of Prima Facie, the one-woman play that’s on Broadway right now and landed Jodie Comer a Tony nomination, after she won a Olivier Award during its run on the West End. Big year for Cynthia Erivo!
+ Sheryl Lee Ralph answered every question Vulture had about Sister Act 2.
+ Reservation Dogs will be back on August 2nd!
+ Oh man, okay, this is some complicated news. Shailene Woodley, Cara Delevingne, and Noémie Merlant from Portrait Of A Lady On Fire are set to star in a Patricia Highsmith biopic about her love life, which was… hmm. Partricia Highsmith was the original Shane McCutcheon but like way meaner — and also antisemitic, so I’ll be interested to see how this whole thing plays out.
+ Hayley Kiyoko chatted to Buzzfeed about queerness on Wizards of Waverly Place.
+ Over at The Cut, Jeanie Bergen writes about being a TV writer on food stamps.
+ Lesbian Space Princess heads into production from Film Lab: New Voices.
Pop Culture Fix: Sasha Lane Is Queer Again in Zendaya’s Boyfriend’s New Show
It’s Monday! I hope your coffee’s strong and your shoes are comfortable (the Lesbian’s Prayer). Here’s your first Pop Culture Fix of the week!
+ On Thursday, Natalie shared the trailer for Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room with the following note: “Sasha Lane is playing queer again in the new show with Zendaya’s boyfriend” to which Nic accurately replied “Zendaya’s boyfriend is his government name.” The Crowded Room is a psychological thriller set in NYC in 1979, based on the 1981 non-fiction novel The Minds of Billy Milligan, and it definitely seems like he’s going to murder Sasha Lane and this woman she’s kissing in the trailer whose face looks like that emoji with the boba eyes and happy unshed tears. Like Hashtag You on Netflix but as Emmy bait? Anyway, I will not be watching but I’m sure you’ll be hearing more from one of our serial killer aficionados such as Valerie Anne or Riese!
+ Roberta Colindrez is a new film called Unidentified Objects.
+ Hulu’s Drag me to Dinner is right on time!
+ This is so great: A Link Between Genders: Trans Joy and the Legend of Zelda. Follow with Niko’s Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Held Up a Mirror to My Life as an Alcoholic Trans Woman.
+ Courtney Vandersloot hesitated to join the New York Liberty after her mom’s cancer diagnosis.
+ The final trailer for the final season of Never Have I Ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IemUKB4kCWM&feature=youtu.be
+ Why Netflix sucks at making hits that last.
+ Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are expected to return for a Freaky Friday sequel.
+ Okay what do you think of GQ’s list of: The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts.
+ ND Stevenson’s Nimona is finally coming to Netflix in June!
+ Station 19 star Danielle Savre stands with striking Hollywood writers.
Pop Culture Fix: Dolly Parton Duets With Lizzo, Brandi Carlile, Melissa Etheridge, More Gays on New Album
Feature image photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Sending you lots of love out there, wherever you are, today. The world is dark and light is precious and I’m thinking about you. Yes, you! Here’s your midweek Pop Culture Fix.
+ When the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame first wanted to induct Dolly Parton, she declined the offer because she said she didn’t feel like she’d earned it. Now she’s releasing an album called Rockstar, in which she’ll be dueting with Lizzo, Brandi Carlile, Melissa Etheridge, Miley Cyrus, and more gays (and not gays)! According to Variety nine of the songs will be originals, 21 will be covers, there are nine vinyl options available, and the album will go on sale November 17th, just in time for the holigays!
+ Tawny Cypress talks Yellowjackets, Christina Ricci, queer roles and more.
+ Fox has cancelled Fantasy Island boooooooo!!!
+ Dead Ringers’ gynecological horror.
+ Dominique Jackson is starring in Cartoon Network’s We Baby Bears — and! according to GLAAD, lots of crewmembers came out as nonbinary during the show!
+ Lilly Singh says a person of color needs to replace James Corden on CBS’ The Late Late Show.
+ So let’s break down the whole “lesbian cousins” thing in Sailor Moon.
Pop Culture Fix: Dianna Agron on Those Gaylor Rumors: “Me? Oh, if only!”
Feature image photo by Jeff Kravitz/AMA2014/FilmMagic)
It’s Monday and I am on my third cup of coffee before noon, which is what gave me the courage to write “Gaylor” and publish it, I think. Anyway, here’s your Pop Culture Fix!
+ Rolling Stone dropped a new profile/interview with Dianna Agron in which she is pretending not to know what the word “shipping” means in relation to fandom, despite the fact that she was one-half of Faberry, the femslash ship that kept Tumblr running for about five entire years between 2009-2014. (That’s Rachel Berry and Quinn Fabray from Glee, in case you’re one of the lucky ones who never watched that disasterpiece.) This time, though, “shipping” is in reference to Dianna’s friendship/girlfriend conspiracies with Taylor Swift and the rumors that she inspired the song “22” due to the fact that she’s mentioned in the liner notes. “Me? Oh, if only!” she said before clarifying: “I … I mean, there have been many stories about my dating life that are so wildly untrue… That’s funny.” Look, would you kiss her on the porch in front of all your stupid friends or not, Dianna? Answer me!
+ Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is on the way.
+ Why Netflix keeps cancelling lesbian TV shows.
+ Disney’s LGBTQ fans worry about Florida policies even as many consider the park a safe haven.
+ The true story of The Little Mermaid’s queer origins.
+ Hulu has acquired the LGBTQ documentary We Live Here: The Midwest.
+ Over at Vulture: Ted Lasso’s Jodi Balfour thinks Jack will have major regrets about how she handled this whole Keeley situation. “The connection they had was very real; I think they were falling in love, big-time. And I imagine that Jack will continue to walk through her life with a lot of regret, and will hopefully begin to unpack what was going on for her in that moment, that she couldn’t see past this very patriarchal, shaming point of view to be the support to this woman she was falling in love with.”
+ RuPaul’s Drag Race stars emphasise importance of queer stories as anti-LGBTQ+ laws sweep US.
+ Over at Cosmo: 11 queer celebs on celebrating self-expression. “From Orville Peck to Sugar and Spice, these trailblazers are modeling—for the LGBTQ+ community and beyond—what it means to be wholly, authentically, genuinely yourself. And also hot as hell.”
+ Chasing Chasing Amy trailer examines the impact of Kevin Smith’s queer ’90s rom-com.
Pop Culture Fix: Sneak a Peek at “Squid Game” Star Lee Yoo-mi’s New Queer Movie
How’s everyone feeling after the gayest Met Gala ever, a thing I’m saying because there were a lot of cats, not because I know anything about fashion. But Autostraddle EIC Carmen sure does! I do know pop culture, though; and here’s your mid-week Pop Culture Fix!
+ Squid Game star Lee Yoo-mi stars in a new queer film that debuted at the Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea. “Strictly speaking, Lee is the film’s love interest. The lead role is filled by Park Soo-yeon, who plays high-school taekwondo athlete Ju-young. This continues a sporting theme in her career – she has previously played a teenage runner and basketball player respectively in the notable Korean indie films Anchor and Hoop It Up.”
+ The Writer’s Strike is in full-swing and we’re fully behind them! I’ve got a post coming later today about how you can support the strikers! In the meantime, here’s an awesome primer from our all-time fave Brittani Nichols.
+ Related: The Yellowjackets season three writer’s room lasted for one day before studios forced the strike to happen. Abbott Elementary planned to convene its writers room yesterday for season three, but nope!
+ Also related: How the writer’s strike could affect film releases this year and beyond.
+ Fox has renewed 911: Lone Star for a fifth season. HOWEVER, regular 9-1-1 is moving to ABC? Weird! The Wrap wrote about the move and the broken economics of making television.
+ Tony Awards gingerly approach real progress by nominating two nonbinary actors.
+ This isn’t gay, but also is kinda super gay? Meet the painter behind the iconic Baby-Sitter’s Club covers.
+ Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury has lots of firsts, including a lesbian romance.
+ Padma Lakshmi on how immigration intersects with Hulu’s Taste the Nation.
+ Ten movies with no cis male characters!!!!
+ The Proud Family celebrated Autism Awareness Month.
+ How Rachel Weisz seamlessly starred opposite herself in Dead Ringers.
+ Missy Elliott is among the new class of musicians being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Pop Culture Fix: Meet Ariana DeBose’s Disney Princess, The Original Star-Wisher
It has finally stopped raining in NYC! The sun is out! And on my walk this morning I met a dog named Waffle Cone! Here’s a Pop Culture Fix to brighten your day.
+ Ariana DeBose’s Ash makes her debut in the trailer for Disney’s upcoming Wish. According to Playbill, Ash is “a 17-year-old who sees darkness in her kingdom that no one else does. In a moment of desperation, she makes a passionate plea to the stars, and her prayers are answered when an actual star falls from the sky to aid her along her journey.” SOLD. P.S. if that little donkey sounds extremely familiar to you it’s because it’s Alan Tudyk doing his Harley Quinn Clayface voice.
+ Complex butch characters helped me feel seen: From Big Boo in Orange is the New Black to Max in A League of Their Own, here are the butch characters that had a profound impact on Niamh O’Toole.
+ Ted Lasso believes in its LGBTQ+ characters.
+ Reality star Chloe Veitch star says she’s ‘itching’ to date after coming out as bisexual.
+ The Morning Show has already been renewed for a fourth season.
+ Michaela Jaé Rodriguez has joined American Horror Story season 12.
+ Yasmin Finney covers Elle this month with an excellent profile attached.
+ It’s Tubi’s Time! How the weird, free streamer won the internet’s heart.
+ We’ve got a poster and a release date for Casey McQuiston’s Red, White, and Royal Blue! Or, as I like to call it: The Swooniest Book I Ever Read About Boys.
Love gets royally complicated on August 11th when #RWRBMovie comes to @PrimeVideo. pic.twitter.com/Yz2USMJDOc
— Red, White & Royal Blue on Prime (@RWRBonPrime) April 26, 2023
+ 11 lesbian directors you should know.
+ Perry Mason reboot’s leading ladies discuss the show’s fan-favorite lesbian romance.
+ Suzume should have remained a lesbian romance.
+ Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and why women never stop coming of age.
Pop Culture Fix: Butch Lesbian Bro Che Diaz Is Back in “And Just Like That” Season 2 Trailer
Well, hello there! Did you spend an hour talking to your therapist this morning about how you can’t enjoy queer rom-com books if the characters are making irresponsible life choices, or was that just me? Don’t answer that! Read this Pop Culture Fix instead!
+ Did you feel that crackle that ripped through the air this afternoon? That sizzle of promise and foreboding? That horny zap of pop culture lesbianism? Well, friend, that’s because the trailer for And Just Like That season two has arrived. Let the straights fight about my nemesis Aiden Shaw; we’re here to talk about Che Diaz, who’s taking “big steps” with Miranda. Here you go!
https://youtu.be/um4P4b3i-eI
+ Cara Delevingne is joining American Horror Story Season 12.
+ Nicole Maines chatted with Salon about her role on Yellowjackets, about being in a show that’s “unapologetically queer” and fighting for “women’s wrongs.”
+ Lizzo brings drag queens on stage in Tennessee show despite the state’s bullshit drag ban.
+ Noah’s Arc will be returning this year! Noah’s Arc! Geez, remember Logo? NOAH’S ARC!
+ Carmen mentioned this in yesterday’s Also.Also.Also, and here it is again: Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Kate Moennig, and Ilene Chaiken appeared with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the White House press briefing yesterday for Lesbian Visibility Week. “As a young queer woman of color, I felt alone and sometimes invisible,” Jean-Pierre said as she introduced the group. “For so many people in our community, The L Word’s impact cannot be understated.” I like to pretend what is going on here is that Bette Porter has been elected president. Mayor? Psh! That’s little leagues! Her first order of business is to remind us that actually the Covid pandemic is still in full swing and we should be taking all necessary precautions to keep ourselves and our fellow humans safe, including masking and making all events accessible virtually. Great first day message, President Porter! Thank you!
+ Netflix’s Heartstopper will be back this summer.
+ Octavia Spencer’s Truth Be Told has finished after its third season at Apple TV.
Pop Culture Fix: The L Word: Generation Q’s Marja-Lewis Ryan is Remaking “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”
Feature image photo by Mark Von Holden/Variety via Getty Images
It’s Monday! The sun is shining! The coffee’s hot and fresh! And my cat is so mad at me for accidentally locking her out of the bedroom for 1.5 hours this morning that she’s now giving me the silent treatment right in my face, like I sent her to the edge of the world for a thousand years! Here, you read this Pop Culture Fix while I suck up to Quasar Beeperton.
+ Hmm. Marja-Lewis Ryan is co-writing a Girls Just Wanna Have Fun script for the Village Roadshow remake of the 1980s cult hit with her Generation Q colleague Allie Romano. Elizabeth Banks is producing. I guess that means it’s going to be gay? And also maybe kinda bananas? I guess we’ll see! Maybe Cyndi Lauper will get involved this time; she didn’t want anything to do with the original, even though it was based on her song! Anyway, the main thing is that Helen Hunt is a real root for me in the original, and I hope the new one makes people gay too.
+ Rachel Weisz on queer love stories, Dead Ringers and why she’s ‘honoured’ to be a lesbian icon.
+ Related: The Rachel Weisz Gay Index.
+ Inside Hayley Williams’ radically queer Tennessee hair salon.
+ Surprise! Horizon Forbidden West is getting review bombed because the DLC has a major queer storyline!
+ Little Richard and the truth about rock and roll’s queer origins.
+ Selling Sunset Season Six! An alliterative goldmine!
+ The Owl House vs. Harry Potter: magic school shows and queer representation.
+ TV could challenge biphobia by dropping the ambiguously bi trope.
+ Station 19 will be back with a seventh season.
+ Juliet Rylance chatted to Vulture about playing iconic lesbian lawyer Della Street on Perry Mason.
Pop Culture Fix: Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie to Face Off in “Maude v Maude”
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Happy Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Day to all who celebrate! Here’s one (1) Pop Culture Fix to get you through the day until you can get home and play! OR! Watch the Abbott Elementary season finale! Big day, buddies!
+ Well here’s some news you can certainly use: Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie will star opposite of each other (and both produce) the new spy thriller Maude v Maude, which, according to Deadline looks like: “Exact details are being kept under wraps, but and insider describes the pic as a Bond vs. Bourne type of global action thriller with locations to be announced.” I am already in my seat at the theater with some popcorn, patiently waiting to respectfully observe this Oscar-caliber sapphic cinematic masterpiece!
+ Hulu has renewed Reasonable Doubt for a second season.
+ Freeform’s got premiere dates for the new season of Cruel Summer and the final season of grown-ish.
+ Carmen shared Evette Dion’s Megan Thee Stallion profile in Elle in yesterday’s Also.Also.Also, and I’m sharing it again in this Pop Culture Fix because it is something special and I hope you read it!
+ New Jersey has ranked Yellowjackets characters by New Jersey-ness.
.@yellowjackets96 gets us.
Here’s our official ranker of the #Yellowjackets (from least to most Jersey) 🧵⬇️ https://t.co/fmvEn7F76l
— New Jersey (@NJGov) April 19, 2023
+ Disney holds its first ever Pride Night as Ron DeSantis keeps on with his fascist threats.
+ What do you think of TVLine’s list of best Disney Channel original characters?
+ All of the Queer Films at the Tribeca Film Festival.
+ Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte event was a celebration of queer and Black excellence.
+ Melanie Lynskey remains so proud of But I’m a Cheerleader.
+ Stewie — er, sorry, now that she plays for my New York Liberty, I’m acting like we’re best friends. Hem hem. Breanna Stewart and Courtney Vandersloot led their EuroLeague team, Fenerbahçe Alagöz Holding, to its first ever championship. Other names you probably recognize but that aren’t gay (yet! or known to me!) on the team: Satou Sabally, Emma Meesseman, and Kayla McBride!
Pop Culture Fix: Suzume Was Almost a Lesbian Love Story, Instead of a Furniture Love Story
Good morning! I would like to thank 50mg of Sumatriptan for knocking out my migraine and getting my Monday off to a good start, and also I would like to thank you for reading this first Pop Culture Fix of the week! (And coffee, I would always like to thank coffee.)
+ Makoto Shinkai says Suzume was almost a lesbian romance, but he didn’t think the Japanese market was ready for a love story between two women. Speaking to Looper about the change from his original plan, he said, “At first, I wanted to turn this story into a movie about Suzume and another girl journeying. Why I even wanted to go in that direction in the first place is because I personally felt a little bit tired of telling the very traditional romance story. I felt that in Your Name, I did everything that I possibly could in terms of ‘boy meets girl’ and ‘will they, won’t they, will they meet.’ That element of romance is very relatable to the masses, which is why it was a subject matter that resonated with a large audience.” Instead of a sapphic romance, Suzume spends her time pining over a chair. Which, like, I love my frog chair in Animal Crossing as much as the next lesbian but gosh!
+ The Watermelon Woman is coming to The Criterion Collection!
+ Sophie B. Hawkins is glad “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover” is a lesbian anthem.
+ In this week’s episode of The Rookie: Feds, called “I Am Many,” real life wives Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts will rekindle their on-screen romance.
+ Your first look at Never Have I Ever season four, with Fab’s most excellent red tux.
+ Them has ranked Succession characters by queerness. Shiv is awfully low on these lists for someone who wanted to have a threesome and then just do it with the woman doctor and without Tom back in season two, you guys!
+ Tessa Thompson will star in Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, a reimagining of Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen’s famed play. According to The Hollywood Reporter: “Written and directed by Nia DaCosta — coming off both the success of 2021’s Candyman and her upcoming MCU debut The Marvels (the first trailer for which recently landed) — the feature is billed as an epic and visceral reimagination of Henrik Ibsen’s famed 1891 stage play, and reunites the filmmaker with Thompson after she starred in the director’s critically acclaimed 2018 debut feature Little Woods.” Hedda Gabler! The lady Hamlet! Let’s go!
+ Nissa and Chandra: MTG famous’ LGTBQIA+ couple are canon now!
+ Lili Reinhart would like to explore Betty’s sexuality before Riverdale ends.
+ Billy Porter to star as Black queer icon James Baldwin, in a movie he’s co-writing.
+ Our TV Team’s Eagle Eye, Natalie, spied Sepideh Moafi in this new Class of 09 trailer from FX.
https://youtu.be/Xh3JIflUYjk
+ The Last of Us plans to be around longer than two season.
+ Netflix apologizes for botching last night’s Love Is Blind reunion.
+ And finally, two video game trailers I know you’re gonna love! Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores.
Pop Culture Fix: Sarah Paulson Kept Pedro Pascal Alive With Lunch Money in Their Early Days
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+ Okay this is the sweetest story (that shouldn’t be a reality of a career in any industry, but is nonetheless very kind). In their early acting days, besties Sarah Paulson and Pedro Pascal were kept alive and fed by her landing small roles and sharing the pay with Pascal. “He’s talked about this publicly,” Paulson told Esquire in their Pedro Pascal profile, “but there were times when I would give him my per diem from a job I was working on so that he could have money to feed himself.” The profile is full of adorable anecdotes about their long friendship and the ways they kept each other going.
+ Bre-Z and fiancee Chris Amore will be one of the six celeb pairings on MTV’s Couples Retreat.
+ Watch Hayley Kiyoko romantically serenade girlfriend Becca Tilley at her London concert.
+ The Tiny Beautiful Things EP says exploding vibrators are rare — but, uh, we talked about this plot in our Slack and I gotta say: doesn’t seem that rare.
+ From Samantha Puc over at Polygon: Link is a gay icon, and Zelda fans know it. Pair with our own Niko’s Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Held Up a Mirror to My Life as an Alcoholic Trans Woman.
+ The 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots.
+ Megan Rapinoe joins dozens of pro athletes to make powerful stand against trans sport ban.
+ 10 queer anime couples everyone wishes were real.
+ Hannah Gadsby’s third comedy special, aptly named Something Special, will land on Netflix in May.
+ Turning pro in women’s basketball is not a zero-sum game.
+ Lizzo cried all day when she found out she landed an iconic role on The Mandalorian.
+ Gillian Anderson denies rumors that she refused to return to The Crown.