Pop Culture Fix: Stephanie Beatriz Is a Non-Magical Disney Heroine In the Enchanted “Encanto”

Welcome to your Monday Pop Culture Fix, friends! I hope your week is off to a chill start!

+ Spephanie Beatriz is finally voicing a leading Disney character! She’ll play Maribel, the only non-magical member of her family/the entire town in the upcoming Encanto. I cannot wait!

+ Our TV Team has been very excited for Benedetta ever since it was announced, and once we read Gregory Ellwood’s review from Cannes, we kind of got hysterical with anticipation: “Benedetta is the lesbian visions of god camp melodrama you’ve been waiting for! It’s an extravaganza!”

+ The trailer for Ryan Murphy’s documentary about Exodus International, the largest gay conversion therapy group in U.S. history, is here and, um, if you grew up evangelical like me it’s pretty fucking intense.

+ Hmm. Well.

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+ The Cut has watched the new Gossip Girl and would like you to try to even imagine being that hot in high school.

+ Lil Nas X and pop’s gay sexual revolution.

+ Loki’s director hopes the character’s sexuality gets explored more in upcoming Marvel projects, which sure is a thing Marvel directors love to say about their gay characters!!!!

+ Delta’s Queer Eye safety video never saw the light of day because of Covid (same).

+ How R. L. Stine’s Fear Street had its super gay movie evolution.

+ Should we be cautious about the rise of the queer TV elite?

+ Black Girl Nerds interviewed the cast of grown-ish ahead of senior year.

+ Paramount+ is getting one of its biggest viewership boots from an unlikely source: Legend of Korra fans!

+ Generation EPs Daniel and Zelda Barnz talk season two cliffhangers and making s show that celebrates queer joy.