The 2nd annual “If the Shoe Fits” national talent competition and pageant to find the new Queen of New Year’s Eve has announced the winner of the six-city 2026 tour as Jada Pinkett Fox of Dallas, Texas. Presented by Bourbon Street Pub, New Orleans House and the Monroe County Tourist Development Read more
More than a decade after changing the landscape of television representation, Disney has officially confirmed a Glee reboot for Disney+ and Hulu. Long celebrated for bringing diverse, trailblazing LGBTQ+ narratives and characters—from Kurt Hummel and Santana Lopez to Blaine Anderson Read more
In the SXSW documentary Manhood, director Daniel Lombroso investigates the booming, high-stakes world of cosmetic enhancement through the lens of Dallas entrepreneur Bill Moore. Moore is the mastermind behind the PhaloFILL procedure, a controversial practice attempting to make penis enlargement Read more
Nicolas Keenan and Rob Jetten with surrogate mom, Lisa Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his fiancé, Argentine field hockey player Nicolás Keenan, have announced they are expecting their first child through surrogacy. The couple shared the happy news on Read more
Romeo Beckham (left) and Paul Kircher (right) star in the film. Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, StudioCanal, Manna Studios The upcoming gay romantic drama Forty Love directed by Pierre-Ange Carlotti, brings high-stakes tension, intense emotional friction, and a heated rivalry straight to the tennis Read more
If you’re obsessed with Heated Rivalry like the rest of us, the Season 1 DVD and Blu-ray drops are a total lifesaver while we wait for Season 2 to wrap filming. The physical release comes packed with three brand-new deleted Read more
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. Scene from “A Long Winter” Directed by Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers, Weekend) and adapted from a story by acclaimed author Colm Tóibín, A Long Winter is a deeply intimate 1950s drama that weaves quiet homoerotic tension Read more
For years, the Oscars have usually gone to huge, traditional movies with massive battle scenes or giant historical backdrops. But every once in a while, a film comes along to remind us that the most powerful stories are deeply Read more
Ronan Farrow. Photo credit: Fuzheado, via Wikimedia Commons Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Ronan Farrow has launched a new investigative series targeting how major tech platforms harvest user data to train artificial intelligence models, kicking off the project with a report Read more
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, once again lays bare how far certain members of the highest court are willing to go to cast our basic right Read more
World of Wonder, the powerhouse production company behind RuPaul’s Drag Race, is expanding its unscripted slate with a groundbreaking new docuseries for WOW Presents Plus titled The Polycule. The upcoming series shifts its lens to Silicon Valley to Read more
By Patrick Tsakuda Language is rarely static; it evolves, bleeds, and shifts alongside the communities that use it. For many older generations who lived through decades of state-sanctioned violence, police raids, and open hatred, the word “queer” carries the heavy, Read more
Scene from “Heated Rivalry” For millions of readers, Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid is celebrated for balancing emotional depth with compelling intimacy, but as fans await more from hockey icons Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, Reid has admitted to struggling Read more
Scene from “Moonlight” As Netflix rolls out its heavy-hitting lineup for October 2026, streaming enthusiasts and cinema fans have plenty to celebrate. Among the major licensed additions heading to the platform this month, the cultural phenomenon and Academy Award Best Read more
You make time for the people and things you love. Make time for yourself, too. Dignity Health is here to remind you that regular mammograms are an important part of breast health and can help detect breast cancer early. Schedule Read more
Scene from “Heated Rivalry” Accent Aigu Entertainment, the production company led by co-founders Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady behind the hit gay hockey romance series Heated Rivalry, has launched a real-life charity directly inspired by the Irina Foundation from the Read more
Rui Takahashi. Photo: Instagram In a monumental moment for sports representation in Japan and globally, national volleyball star Rui Takahashi has publicly come out, declaring simply and powerfully: “I am gay.” This announcement has sent ripples of support through the Read more
Ignite Your Palm Springs Pride Weekend next month with Male Aesthetic at the Palm Springs Art Museum BY PATRICK TSAKUDA | PHOTO BY TARA HOWARD PHOTOGRAPHY Begin your Palm Springs Pride celebration with Male Aesthetic on November 4th at the Read more
Beverly Hills Egg Donation’s Robyn Perchik on the Evolution of LGBTQ+ Family Building BY MARK ARIEL | PHOTO BY ALEXANDER SCHUELLER Navigating the journey of third-party reproduction can feel daunting, but agencies like Beverly Hills Egg Donation (BHED) strive to Read more
How Meta’s Rogue AI is Silencing California’s LGBTQ Sanctuaries BY VICTOR MELAMED For LGBTQ+ bar owners across Los Angeles and San Francisco, navigating the digital age has become a surreal bureaucratic nightmare. While their physical venues remain buzzing with life, Read more
