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Nicola Coughlan dropped her first pop song and was inspired by queer icons and Bravo’s The Real Housewives franchise.

Susanne Bartsch, the legendary club queen who has presided over generations of queer party boys — and other children of the counterculture — in the City That Never Sleeps.“You know, I’m not gay, but I love the community, and I’ve always felt that they need support because they seemed to be treated differently than the heteros,” Bartsch told The Post. “And I didn’t like that.

Pedro Pascal and Omar Apollo bromance seemingly came out of nowhere. For years months, the self-appointed keepers of pop-culture on Gay Twitter X scratched their heads in confusion, desperate for the lore behind (and nature of) the singer-songwriter and Mandalorian actor’s kinship.Well, today, we have an answer.

Tune in below in this week’s edition of “Bop After Bop”…Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Queerty Pride 50 Honoree and Young Royals breakout star Omar Rudberg is the queer popstar we’ve been waiting for. With his latest single “Talk”, Rudberg is serving full choreography, look after look and an irresistible 2000’s pop sound. It’s no surprise fans are hooked with each new release, and with “Talk,” Rudberg is bound to keep the conversation going.Get to know the up-and-coming ‘Young Royals’ star.A final, posthumous album from visionary producer SOPHIE is on the horizon.

Netflix‘s fantastic new documentary Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution proves, there’s long been a community of LGBTQ+ comics at the forefront of our social revolution, even if we didn’t always know it.In director Page Hurwitz’s film, a long-overdue spotlight is shone on the queer voices who blazed new trails for us in entertainment, from early icons like Robin Tyler and Moms Mabley, to counterculture firebrands like Sandra Bernhard and Margaret Cho, to the legendary Lily Tomlin.And it’s through Tomlin’s story we’re reminded of yet another influential comedian who was part of our community, too, even if he isn’t always discussed as such: Richard Pryor.In 1977, Tomlin was one of the hosts of a show at the Hollywood Bowl called “The Star-Spangled Night For Rights,” intended as a fundraiser in opposition to Anita Bryant’s anti-gay movement, though billed as a broader “human rights benefit.”She had convinced her good friend Pryor—already a crossover comedy star who had made his way into film and television roles—to be part of the show and, when he took the stage, he wasted no time in calling out the event for being about gay rights while not really saying “gay rights.”“I came here for human rights, and I found out what it really is about is not getting caught with a d*ck in your mouth,” he joked in footage from the evening, which is unearthed in Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution.“Ain’t a motherf*cker out here [who’s] come out here and declared themselves gay,” Pryor continued. “Ain’t nobody did shit.