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Ts Madison and Miss Lawrence have opened up about their hopes of seeing more POC trans and non-binary stories on the big screen. 

This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won.

Via Mr. Man: We've got a massive crush on Austin Butler. He's hot and only getting hotter.

When the world ends, aficionados will still be watching their favorite Judy Garland movies.

Blonde has finally arrived on Netflix.Directed by Andrew Dominik, the film adapts Joyce Carol Oates’ book of the same name, featuring Ana de Armas (Knives Out) as the iconic star in this fictionalized—and controversial—account of her fabled life and career.Blonde has made headlines and been met with mixed reviews since premiering at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, upsetting moviegoers with its graphic depictions of sexual violence. According to the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, the “hard to watch” feature “teeters between commenting on [Monroe’s] exploitation and contributing to it.”In other words, proceed with caution—this is far from your typical biopic.Minor spoilers for Blonde ahead.Dark as it may be, there is at least one sequence of the filmthat we couldn’t look away from, and that’s Monroe’s whirlwind romance with fellow actors Charles Chaplin Jr.

Dame Joan Collins has revealed that she wanted to be a boy when she started going through puberty at the age of 14. The star first made a splash in Hollywood in glamorous roles in the 1950s in films like Land of the Pharaohs, The Opposite Sex and Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!. However, she has now shared that she ‘hated’ all the changes she saw in her body as a young teenager and so opted to ‘rebel’ and wear boys’ clothes instead.

Harper’s Bazaar that investors kept pushing for a NSFW LGBTQ story, instead of a plot about a killer on the run.She told the publication how backers demanded “a hot lesbian movie with me and Christina Ricci” — however, that is not what the Patty Jenkins-directed “Monster” turned out to be.“There’s a natural fight in me to want to create environments that feel like the things that I wish I had 30 years ago when I started,” Theron said. The “Old Guard” actress also discussed her struggles with costumes during movie shoots.“Having absolutely no control over what you’re wearing is a big one that really f – – king annoyed me for years. Having some guy make you have a fitting almost in front of them — stuff like that, it’s really belittling,” Theron noted.She then described an incident on set involving a director who kept wanting her to change her clothes.“When I started, there was no conversation around it.

Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick provides an in-depth and exhaustively researched account of the underground world of primarily white gay men through presidential administrations from Franklin Roosevelt’s to Bill Clinton’s. Kirchick’s focus is primarily white gay men since they were predominant during the racist, misogynistic era he covers.“I do talk about lesbians, but women had very little political power during the Cold War era,” Kirchick points out.

B. Pagels-Minor, a former Netflix employee who organized protests of Dave Chappelle’s transphobic comedy special; Barbra Seville, a drag queen that stood up to a GOP politician and brought receipts; Maia Kobabe, a nonbinary author who found emself at the center of the right’s book-banning craze; Adrian Jawort, who sued a pastor who lied about her and misgendered her… and won; and HRC legal director Sarah Warbelow, who testified in Congress about LGBTQ people’s rights in the wake of Roe being overturned and stood up to a Republican Congressman who was erasing bisexual people.The nominees for Hero who Stood Up with Dignity came out, fought back, and stood tall.

Heartstopper star Kit Connor has been sexuality-speculated right off of Twitter.The actor is part of a growing contingent of men in Hollywood who don’t care to publicly label their sexuality. Some take this as a progressive step towards general sexual fluidity and liberation, while others take it as non-queer people attempting to pander to (and profit from) the queer community.The latter group took aim at Connor this week after he was seen out and about holding hands with his A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow costar, Maia Reficco.Many came to the star’s defense, pointing out that the moment neither defined the pair’s relationship nor his personal sexuality.

The Handmaid’s Tale star Samira Wiley has opened up about being outed in a new interview.

Stepmom star Susan Sarandon has seemingly confirmed her bisexuality in a new interview. 

After nearly 30 years of working in Hollywood, Gabrielle Union is used to facing slings and arrows. Still, when she opens up Twitter and sees people attacking her trans daughter, Zaya Wade, it hits differently.

The Whale, at the Venice Film Festival yesterday.The movie, in which Fraser plays an obese, 600lb, gay man seeking to reconnect with his daughter, went down well with its audience. In fact, they gave it a six-minute standing ovation at the Sala Grande.Related: Brendan Fraser to play a 600lb, gay recluse in new movie, The WhaleFraser and director Darren Aronofsky were in attendance for the screening and took the stage.

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ABOVE: The great Johnny Slash.

Harry Styles’ recent comments deriding the fact that ‘so much of gay sex in film is two guys going at it… it kind of removes the tenderness from it’, I felt a pang of discomfort. Hubert and Antonin’s encounter – like other sex scenes I’ve seen since – didn’t align with Styles’ reading of them. The singer and actor was talking about his upcoming role in My Policeman, in which he plays a 1950s closeted cop in a love triangle with his wife and another man. It’s a film that, according to Styles, portrays its relations ‘sensitively’. I’m all for this movie, but I can’t let the hitmaker’s comments slide. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoFirstly, I disagree that the majority of gay sex scenes that we do see are lacking in tenderness.But it also seemed like the former One Directioner was suggesting there’s some sort of barrage of same-sex lovemaking on film in Hollywood.

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Danielle Fishel and Lance Bass will hopefully be reliving their late ‘90s romance in a new movie. The Boy Meets World Star revealed the exciting news on her podcast with former co-stars Will Friedle and Rider Strong, Pod Meets World."Lance and I are actually working on a movie about our love story and about our prom experience," she shared on Monday. “I dated Lance for about a year while I was on Boy Meets World.

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(CNN) — When Brad Pitt arrived at the premiere for new movie Bullet Train last month, his laid-back linen outfit made headlines everywhere — or part of it did, at least. The actor, who is known for hypermasculine roles in films such as Fight Club and Once Upon a Time ...

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There are a lot of awards given out in the entertainment industry, but until very recently, none of them were chosen from a queer perspective.

Jeremy Pope has taken on a new role as marine that hasn’t come out to his peers in his upcoming film, The Inspection.

Amandla Stenberg and Lena Wilson have set Film Twitter on fire.

ABOVE: Dr. Oz's web team HATES him.

Actress Anne Heche, the former partner of Ellen DeGeneres, died Friday at 53. Heche's death comes a week after after she crashed her car into a house in Los Angeles, setting the car and house on fire. Police said she had narcotics in her system. Heche's family confirmed her death after earlier announcing that she had been taken off life support.

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Los Angeles Times. Heche, 53, appeared to be “under the influence” and “acting erratically,” L.A. Fire Department officials told the paper.It took firefighters over an hour to contain the blaze.

Out Magazine celebrates its 30th anniversary, and former editor Jeffrey R. Epstein (no, not that Jeffrey Epstein) marked the occasion by revisiting some of his favorite cover stories over the years.Among them was a feature with former WWE wrestler and current blockbuster superstar Dwayne Johnson titled “The Rock Goes Gay!” Reflecting on the piece, Epstein remarked that Johnson was a “class act” and one of “the nicest, smartest humans I have ever interviewed.”Later that day, Johnson quote-tweeted the memory, sharing that, at the time, he was warned that taking a gay role would ruin his career.

They/ Them, is hitting the small screen this summer. As the first of its kind, the slasher film follows a group of LGBTQ+ campers who arrive at a conversion camp for the summer to abolish their queerness.Beyond the obvious horrors of psychological abuse that campers must endure, they also must survive a mysterious masked killer lurking around Whistler Camp.Starring Kevin Bacon, Theo Germaine, Carrie Preston, and Anna Chlumsky, and directed by Academy Award nominee John Logan, the nail-biting film offers an unexpected, yet refreshing take on a classic horror story we've seen time after time.

ABOVE: Timeless.

Lifetime's Flowers in the Attic: The Origin returns on Saturday to continue the saga of the Foxworth family.The twisted origins and secrets of the wealthy Foxworth family are revealed in this prequel to Flowers in the Attic, based on the novel Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews.

WNBA star Brittney Griner’s plight was a central topic at an athletics award ceremony in Hollywood on Wednesday night, and an impassioned speech from soccer phenom Megan Rapinoe drove it all home.Griner has been held prisoner in Russia for the past five months for having vape canisters containing hashish oil in her luggage while traveling through the country.Like many WNBA players, she was playing overseas during the off-season to help compensate for the relatively low pay female athletes receive in the United States.Rapinoe took the ESPYs stage to receive the “Best Play” award and used the opportunity to speak out in support of her sister in sport:“We love her. … We miss her.

Hot Joel Summer continues as the Fire Island star Joel Kim Booster “hosts” Grindr for a cheeky interview where he reveals his favorite position, Britney Spears track, and so much more.While showing off his gorgeous new Los Angeles home (seriously, the view from that balcony is stunning), Booster runs through Grindr and Netflix’s very gay gauntlet of 69 questions that range from “Who’s got the range?’ to “Demon twink or angel twink?” It’s demon twink, obviously.  A post shared by Joel Kim Booster (@ihatejoelkim)Naturally, the actor/writer/comic’s got jokes, but he also shares some pretty surprising personal details. For instance, did you know Booster’s nickname growing up was “Joji Poji?” We didn’t either!Related: A queer Asian revolution is happening in Hollywood and, honestly, it’s about damn timeElsewhere, the star reveals some pertinent info for anyone who might be on the apps: If you see him on Grindr, should you admit you know who he is, or pretend you don’t? “It’s like the cops—if you know who I am, you’re legally required to tell me.” Noted! (By the way, he also says his Grindr tribe is “Discreet”).The whole thing is a blast, expertly riffing on Vogue’s popular “73 Questions” videos with its steadicam house tour and inquisitive, off-camera interviewee.

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez has opened up about her groundbreaking journey as a trans actress in Hollywood.

Tessa Thompson has said it’s been a ‘tremendous’ privilege to empower her LGBTQ+ fans to come out.The latest Thor flick has seen the return of Tessa’s character, bisexual icon Valkyrie, and during a recent interview she said it was a ‘dream’ to inspire her fans to open up when it comes to their sexuality. ‘That’s been tremendous,’ the 38-year-old, who revealed in 2018 that she’s attracted to both men and women, said. ‘I’ve had so many folks write me and say that they were able to come out or to talk to their family, which is a dream.’She returns to her Marvel role as Valkyrie in Thor: Love and Thunder, following her debut as the MCU’s first LGBTQ+ superhero in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok.‘There is something powerful about seeing an image of yourself reflected in any way.

In the theater news of the week, Lea Michele has been announced to take over the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl on Broadway this September. Lord, help that cast and crew.From Glee to Spring Awakening to The Mayor to Scream Queens, the actress has seemingly made enemies in nearly every production she’s ever been a part of.We all remember when her Glee co-star Samantha Ware aired the star’s awful behavior to the world in 2020 — including her threatening to “sh*t in [Samantha’s] wig” — and how name after name subsequently came out to share their own horror stories with Michele.Apparently, the casting team over at Funny Girl didn’t remember quite as well.As Michele’s curtain open draws nearer, here are five celebs who definitely won’t be seeing her Funny Girl debut:Ware shared the story that finally broke the dam on the open secret of her co-star’s Diva-dom.

They’re at film festivals, they’re on the radio, they’re on Netflix—and there’s even more on the way. These days, it feels like queer cowboys (cow-folks?) are everywhere.Now, you may ask, “What in tarnation is going on here?” What’s in the water that, suddenly, it feels like the zeitgeist is chock-full of gay Westerns?Well, the thing is, the genre has pretty much always been gay.

Tessa Thompson came out as bisexual a few years ago, and in the latest edition of Variety‘s “Just for Variety” podcast she discusses how her own openness has inspired her LGBTQ+ fans to follow her lead.

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Nyle DiMarco told GAY TIMES about what it was like to appear in Peacock’s “iconic” re-imaginging of Queer as Folk.

“Arena A House Musical” is based on the house music of the 1990s that was pumped at the legendary Arena nightclub in Hollywood.

For decades, trans people have been at the forefront of LGBTQ rights. Through their fearless pursuit of proper representation in the media, equal rights, and acceptance in society, more kids exploring their identities can come out and embrace their true selves. However, it is only in the past decade that trans celebrities have gained positive acceptance and visibility in mainstream popular culture, if at all.

Fire Island, filmmaker Andrew Ahn made his first major-studio film, going into business with Searchlight Pictures after previously helming indie fare like Spa Night.And from what Ahn told Vulture recently, Searchlight had many notes about Fire Island—from its script (the studio thought the Noah-Will beach scene was unnecessary) to the soundtrack (the studio wanted “Levitating” by Dua Lipa).Related: A queer Asian revolution is happening in Hollywood and, honestly, it’s about damn timeAhn also described his back-and-forth with Searchlight about the nudity in the film, which is now streaming on Hulu:I was like, “I want a d*ck.” It’s Fire Island. It’s sex scenes.

Chris Pratt is setting the record straight. Unfortunately, he’s still got the record wrong.The 43-year-old actor has long been a symbol for Christianity in Hollywood.

EXCLUSIVE: Queer advocacy group Out in Hollywood released its second annual list of the best unproduced queer-focused television pilot scripts of the past year.