The abundance of gay sports series and movies recently has been a tonic for the queer community, who have historically been alienated by sports scenes. However, the unprecedented success of Heated Rivalry proves one thing: we like our representation sweaty and smutty, with a competitive edge! 🤼‍♂️🌈

The owner of an adult store in Canada got letters from the US DoD, demanding she stop selling sex toys to military personnel in Bahrain, describing them as “posing immediate danger to life or limb or substantial danger to property.” The goods in question included a butt plug and a bullet vibrator. 😆

Joe Locke and Andrew Scott have been cast in the film Elsinore, about the life of gay actor Ian Charleson. He is best known for his role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire. Diagnosed with HIV in 1986, he died of AIDS in 1990 at the age of 40. 🏆🎗️

'Weapons' Amy Madigan chats with ET's Talent Name at the 83rd Golden Globes. She reacts to all the fanfare over her character, Aunt Gladys, and the drag performers dressing as her. Airing live on CBS and Paramount+. youtu.be/K0EMxIeWhFU?...

Thousands attended a vigil at the site of Renee Good's murder, where a speaker declared, “They want us to be afraid of each other. Let’s stand in solidarity.” There is another protest at the Fed. Bldg, which ICE used as a headquarters. Faith leaders plan to speak out at the site of the shooting. ✊

JODIE FOSTER, 👑 always and forever Hollywood royalty, revisits some of her most famous projects and reveals how she got into acting. 🏳️‍🌈🏆❤️ youtu.be/DjljoQI_5Ys?...

For 10 years, performer, host, writer, designer, and producer Isaac Mizrahi has performed at the Café Carlyle. For his 10th annv, he returns Feb 3-21 with a 6-piece band led by Ben Waltzer, Mizrahi performs a setlist that includes everything from Cy Coleman to Laura Nero, and a few original songs. 👑

The mother explained that she'd been crocheting a trans flag blanket for the last 3 weeks for her son, secretly working on it after everyone in her house goes to bed. “The stitches aren’t perfect because my hands shake from the stress, from lying in bed next to a man I don’t recognize anymore.” 🏳️‍⚧️😭🫶

Alan Cumming got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, giving his acceptance speech wearing a trans pride flag pin. In attendance were Cumming’s husband Grant Shaffer, Dylan Mulvaney, and Brian Cox among others. BTW, he got his start in Scottish theater and didn’t come to Hollywood til he was 30! ⭐🌈

The director’s admired works include My Own Private Idaho (street hustlers), To Die For (actual murder plot), Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Ivy League academia), Elephant (Columbine school shooting), Milk (gay rights activist) and Dead Man’s Wire, hostage taker Tony Kiritsis. 👑🏆🌈

Loogootee, IN is the subject of litigation after town leaders’ try to stop Pride. The lawsuit accuses them of trying to nix it for the 3rd time in 3 years. “The ordinance continues Loogootee’s pattern of unconstitutionally restricting Pride celebrations,” said Ken Falk, legal dir. for ACLU of IN. ✊🏳️‍🌈

The wife of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, spoke out for the first time since the incident. “The kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute, because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else she was kind.”

Contestants qualify in regional and state preliminaries before advancing to the national pageant, competing in various categories over several days. In Aug 2024, Brent Ries (Truly Scrumptious) claimed the Miss Gay CA America crown. She advances to Miss Gay America, Jan. 13–17 in Little Rock, AK. 👑🌈👏

This will be a glamorous evening at Palm Springs Art Museum honoring the legendary fashion designer Bob Mackie. Award-winning actress, comedian, singer, writer, and playwright, Carol Burnett, joins the celebration as the evening’s featured presenter of the Art Party Honoree Award to Mackie. 👏👑🏆🫶

Chelsea Handler shouted out Heated Rivalry: "Everyone loves it! Gay men love it, women love it, straight men who say they aren’t gay but work out at Equinox love it!” 🤣, and Rhea Seehorn won best actress for her performance in Pluribus, which explores queer trauma and conversion therapy. 🏆🌈🎬

Monique Carry, PhD, MA, became the acting exec dir of Prevention Access Campaign Jan 1, the nonprofit behind the Undetectable = Untransmittable, or U=U campaign, confirming and broadcasting that HIV+ people who achieve and maintain viral suppression through treatment don’t transmit HIV to others. 🎗️

Avant-garde filmmaker, Rosa von Praunheim 👑, whose 1971 film “It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Society in Which He Lives,” helped jump-start Germany’s gay rights movement, died Dec. 17 at his home in Berlin. He was 83. He had recently announced he had an inoperable brain tumor. 🙏🌈✊

Love, legacy, and one last makeover! On January 21st, the Emmy® Award-winning Queer Eye returns for its tenth and final season, this time, in the heart of Washington, DC. Watch Queer Eye, only on Netflix: netflix.com/queereye 🌈👁️

FOSTER: “When I was young I wanted to be the winner. I wanted to be the hero that gets the gold in the end and learns the big lesson. Now, I want to be the person that loses.” After all, you can lose things and the story isn’t over. Foster lost her interest in acting, and found it again… 👑

For all you TRAITORS fans, there’s a new podcast in town and it’s hosted by Survivor’s 🌴 Boston Rob and 👑 Bob the Drag Queen, who came to fame on Drag Race. This episode introduces you to all the Season 4 cast members. The Traitors premieres this Thursday on Peacock! 🦚 youtu.be/FJINykk2fqU?...

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69-y.o. Bernie Wagenblast, veteran transportation broadcaster whose voice is heard everyday on the NYC subway, came out as trans in 2023. She posted her year began on a stellar note when she was invited to announce Mamdani’s inauguration to one of her favorite commercial jingles, ‘I ❤️ New York’. 🏳️‍⚧️🍎🗽

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Adele’s appearance on Alan Carr’s talk show in 2011 was hilarious! 🤣 youtu.be/B8Ee9Fvm5MU?...

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Emmy-winning global phenom, The Traitors hosted by Alan Cumming, returns for Season 4. Celebrities & reality stars are either “Faithful” or “Traitors”, who try to picked them off one by one. This season’s queer cast members include Monét X Change, Kristen Kish, Colton Underwood, and Johnny Weir. 👑🫶

“The coming out scene is something we’ve been building to and was really important for Will, not just thematically, but also from a narrative point of view,” creator Ross Duffer stated. “The show has always been about overcoming evil, and Vecna, represents all the dark thoughts and evil of society.”

Postcard circa 1885.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, QUEEN of DISCO, DONNA SUMMER! 👑🎂

“Why am I making all this fucking gay ass bullshit?” he says with a laugh. “A big part of my work is that it's just not easy being queer... people will literally attack you because they think you're being too faggy. I struggled with self-esteem. I think that's a big part of the queer experience.” ✊🏳️‍🌈

From actors to writers, drag stars to adult entertainers, here are some of the noteworthy LGBTQ+ names we mourned over the last 12 months. RIP… 👑🙏🏳️‍⚧️🌈

Out physician Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, one of several who resigned from the CDC over the administration’s manipulation of data, has returned to the local health sector. Appointed Chief Med. Officer for NYC's Callen-Lorde Community Health Center he says, “This is when it’s time to go back to local.” 🎗️

In a short time the actors have become famous and the series greenlit for season 2, and now several of the authors novels are NY Times bestsellers. Dir. Jacob Tierney was on CNN and was asked him about Reid's illness. The next day, by luck, a top Parkinson’s expert reached out to offer his help. 🙏🌈🏒

Photog Simbarashe Cha: "The looks form a tapestry of style... every outfit can tell a story.” For me, the main point is that these looks are important because they are almost all 100% nonbinary and could be worn by both men and women. That is this generations contribution to the language of style. 👏

Meet the new queens on RuPaul’s Drag Race 👑 Season 18. Premieres January 3rd on WOW Presents Plus. bit.ly/3Y1b82Z

Following an attack on a 57 y.o. gay man in October that left him in a coma, and an admission by police that they can’t increase patrols in Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ gayborhood, residents in CA’s capital city’s Lavender Heights district are reviving a citizen patrol they call the Lavender Angels. 💜🙏👮‍♂️🌈

Dan Spencer, Task Force founder and spokesperson said, “This will be a space to remember and celebrate those we’ve lost, acknowledging the support of long-term survivors, family members and caregivers." Participants were able to observe a model of the memorial. Construction should start in January.🎗️

A real-life tale of hope and redemption. 🙏🌈👏 youtu.be/CgaJON38tHk?...

An NBC Palm Springs viewer voiced displeasure over an elf’s on-air and on-lawns presence over the “Holiday Lights” special, co-hosted with drag queen Sandy Claus. Anchor Tim O’Brien commented, “How does this affect you in the least? You still gotta get up, go to work and pay your taxes, right?” 👏🌈🎄🦚

👑 LUKE EVANS: "I’ve always wanted to do Broadway, I just didn’t think I would be in stilettos and fishnets [to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter in ‘The Rocky Horror Show’]. I just didn’t think it would be, but it is, and that is going to be me, and I am very excited about it.” #sweettransvestite #rockyhorror

The bish is through, she’s finished, she’s ovah! 🗑️ #garbage

Nature has never operated according to human categories of “normal” or “natural.” The emerging field of queer ecology challenges these assumptions and invites us to see our planet through a more expansive lens, showing us how deeply interconnected our lives are with the nonhuman world. 🌈🥰🐧🐬🦄🌎

More of this please… 🙏

This was the 5th annual TransGiving dinner organized by Black Trans Liberation Kitchen, a NY–based group founded by costume designer and activist Qween Jean, which provides weekly meals and provides clothing, groceries, and other essential items. Its work is rooted in solidarity, not charity. 🍽️🏳️‍⚧️🙏

Florida AG James Uthmeier 🖕spent two months trying to shut down a Pensacola production of A Drag Queen Christmas, featuring former Drag Race competitors. He called the show “demonic,” “anti-Christian,” and “harmful” to children. The Dec 23 show sold out all 1,600-seats. 👏👑🌈

One day Ms. Cathey-Casino asked Mr. Hill his thoughts about monogamy. He said, “Oh, I’m not really into it,” and she hung up dejected. Regrouping after that conversation was harder than she expected. So when he invited her over for a talk the next day, she was sure it was to break up. It wasn’t… ❤️🏳️‍⚧️💍

19 states have sued to block the Trump admin’s plan to strip federal funding from hospitals providing gender-related care for minors, cutting off all Medicaid and Medicare payments — a major share of hospital revenue — to facilities providing minors with gender-related treatments in the country. 👏🏳️‍⚧️

Blue Moon is for sale though longtime owners are not in a hurry and are committed to preserving its legacy as a gay-friendly space. The establishment remains open through the holidays and is scheduled to reopen for the 2026 season on Feb. 10, with some entertainment already scheduled. 🍽️🥃🌈