Hello and welcome to your weekly pop culture fix! Heather Hogan has the flu so I am doing it for her today because of love. Also, Laneia has a migraine. Also, the world is ending.
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+ YouTube has made a deal with several of its most popular stars to create scripted video series for YouTube Red. Ten creators were taken to Sundance last year to work with industry professionals to develop their ideas into scripted series, and one of the shows that earned a development deal comes from bisexual writer/actress/advocate Gaby Dunn and her best friend Allison Raskin. Everyone’s a Liar is “a case-of-the-week series about a duo who start a private agency to investigate the morality of friends, business partners and significant others.”
+ The America’s Next Top Model reboot continues to exist and air episodes, and on Monday night, another cast member came out, more or less, when Marissa revealed that she doesn’t think love has a gender. She explored this genderless love for a three-hour fling with Kyle, who is 23. “There’s a lot of drama in the house right now. I just want to go and get away from all of them,” she confessed. “I didn’t expect to necessarily hit it off with anybody in this house. Marissa is only 18 — almost 19-years-old — but very confident in the fact that she has a somewhat alternative sexuality, and she has really no hesitation with any of that.”
+ The season premiere of Degrassi: Next Class featured a clash between semi-closeted Student Body President Zoë Rivas and the Queer Straight Alliance over designating space for Syrian refugees.
+Â ‘Will and Grace’ Revival Officially a Go at NBC:Â 10 episodes have been ordered.
+ The nurse who plays Patsy Mont in Call the Midwife has feelings about playing a lesbian character
+ “How to Not” Is a Web Series For Queer Women Who Feel Like Everyone Else Has It TogetherÂ
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+ “Moonlight’ Leads Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association Dorian Awards Nominations 2017. IÂ think that Moonlight and Kate McKinnon are the only nominees who made it who I voted for. But okay.
+Â The LGBT Films and Filmmakers of Sundance 2017: Includes ‘Dee Rees Is Gonna Be Super Famous’
+ Variety reviews “Rara,” an insightful, low-key Chilean drama that involves a family with two moms. Not one BUT TWO MOMS.
+ Dorothy Snarker saw the “Lovesong” trailer and she loved it.
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+ An Australian shoe campaign has ignited controversy because it includes naked men and naked women touching other naked men and naked women in a same-sex fashion.
+ Jackie Evancho, one of like three humans who have consented to performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration, has a transgender sister. Her parents say they are dedicated to fighting for their daughter’s rights and against bathroom bills regardless of how the president-elect feels about it.
+ Here are the Gayest Russian Music Videos.