Welcome to the pop culture fix, your weekly update on the world’s most important news stories related to LGBTÂ pop culture, otherwise known as world’s most important topic!
+ Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz will be starring as lesbian lovers in a new film called “Disobedience.” The fact that both actresses are named Rachel will definitely help them figure out how it feels to be a real live lesbian:
In the original book, the story follows young woman (Weisz) who returns to her Orthodox Jewish home after learning about the death of her estranged father. She causes an upheaval in the quiet community when she rekindles a repressed love with her best friend – a woman now married to her cousin.
+ Activist/model/artist/filmmaker/poet Grace Dunham talks to iD magazine about their work and StyleLikeU’s “What’s Underneath” series. Dunham appears in an upcoming episode of the program, which “asks subjects to remove their clothes as they talk about their lives and experiences, with the intention of stripping down being to metaphorically remove the layers of cultural conditioning that we are all subject to.”
+ A new webseries will follow queer ghost hunters in Ohio. Same.
+ Mickailia “Ila” Adu, the child of singer Sade, has come out as a trans man.
+Â Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley are engaged!
+ One fan is living the dream: X Factor finalist Saara Aalto dumped her boyfriend of nine years to be with her now-fiancé Meri Sopanen, a lesbian who was a superfan of the star and is now her manager. They are now engaged.
+ Tonight at 10PM on CBS, Alexandra Grey will guest star on Code Black, playing a patient who is hesitant to disclose that she is transgender.”
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+ Ms. Magazine talks to our famous friends Jasika Nicole and Brittani Nichols about their famous movie Suicide Kale, which’s killing it on the festival circuit.
+ LA Weekly talks to Silas Howard, a director on Transparent and the director of the cult film By Hook or By Crook, about how the game has changed:
“I’m so used to our community doing amazing stuff and then it lives there. We build the house and then we party in it. We don’t count on anything outside. But here, people want this. They’re ready for it. There was a world out there that hasn’t been seen and it’s not that this show represents all that world, but what it represents is breaking a lot of molds.”
+ Amy Landecker, who plays bisexual character Sarah Pfefferman on Transparent, talks to The Daily Beast.
This is sweet!
