Need a boost to get over Hump Day? The Hot Sheet is Queerty’s midweek pop culture catch-up, highlighting the entertainment stories everyone’s talking about, the ones you might’ve missed, and the notable LGBTQ+ film & TV releases in the days ahead. Here’s everything you need to stay in-the-know:GOOD LUCK BABE: As “midwest princess” Chappell Roan‘s career continues to skyrocket, some of the fandom is getting out of hand, so the “Pink Pony Club” singer took to TikTok to speak her piece, setting some (if you ask us) very fair boundaries with people who think she owes them anything. [INTO] UNTANGLED: Singer August Alsina‘s love life has been tabloid fodder ever since his “entanglement” with Jada Pinkett Smith, and now he’s opening up about his sexuality, pushing back against labels, and saying, “I’m fluent in love when it speaks to me.” [BET]AWARD-WORTHY: This Jonathan Bailey press tour just might be the end of us.
First there were those short-short pics from his Fellow Travelers costume fittings—in support of his Emmy-nominated work on the series—and now he’s a V Magazine cover star, swinging from rings in a sheer top.
Please, sir, let us breathe! [Queerty]JONATHAN BAILEY ARE YOU JOKING pic.twitter.com/ist7N1vLJWAND SCENE: Recently, Saturday Night Live announced that queer cast member Punkie Johnson was one of the names who would not be returning for the upcoming 50th season, and now the comic is sharing why the departure was “mutual,” citing she never felt like she “fit” in on the sketch series. [The Daily Beast]TV TRAILBLAZER: After the passing of influential news broadcaster and talk show host Phil Donahue, the gays are reflecting on his steadfast allyship and his pioneering, humanist coverage of the gay rights movement, the AIDS epidemic, and beyond. [LGBTQNation]EXCUSE US?: Queerty fave Tommy DiDario sat down with the stars of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and things got X-rated fast when he asked Catherine O’Hara about her mysterious new role in The Last Of Us, but she.