The Daily Queer
July 23, 2026
Is Scott Kress Needs a Man the best dating show ever? Hunter Biden again rails against the DC “closetocracy,” but won’t name names. ‘Jorts’ are this summer’s fashion trend. Question: are you a ‘male lesbian?’
Scott Kress Needs a Man is the best gay dating show I’ve ever seen!
Instinct Magazine
Instinct is hooked on Tubi’s new gay dating series, which follows internet personality Scott Kress hunting for his first real relationship among nine suitors, aided by best friends and fellow creators Carter Kench, Asher Lieberman, and Sydney Morgan — a foursome with over 35 million TikTok followers combined. Episode one dropped July 16, with new installments expected Thursdays; whether it’s fully real or half-scripted, the reviewer declares it a wild ride worth taking.
Hunter Biden can’t stop talking about closeted gay Republicans
LGBTQ Nation
On The Don Lemon Show, Hunter Biden again dangled Washington’s so-called t — a contingent of closeted, largely Republican politicians he insists everyone in D.C. knows about — while declining to actually out anyone (“I’m already in enough lawsuits”). It follows his podcast appearance on I’ve Had It, where he named the three MAGA laptops he’d most like to see exposed: Josh Hawley’s, Ted Cruz’s, and Mike Johnson’s.
Trump ends care network for LGBTQ+ veterans, internal email shows
The Advocate
An internal email obtained by The Advocate shows the VA dismantling its LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator program within a week — discontinuing specialized calls, trainings, and resources while converting coordinators into general care positions, even as other population-specific programs remain untouched. Providers describe the rollback as a “cruel erasure” and say leadership had assured staff for weeks that nothing beyond job titles would change.
House blocks effort to codify transgender servicemember ban into law
Washington Blade
In a bipartisan 212–217 vote, the House rejected Rep. Lauren Boebert’s NDAA amendment that would have written the transgender military ban into law, a defeat the Congressional Equality Caucus and HRC credited to unified opposition. The victory came with a sting: lawmakers approved two other anti-trans amendments from Rep. Nancy Mace, barring TRICARE coverage of gender-affirming care and restricting sports participation at Defense Department schools.
Judge rejects Trump administration bid to dismiss transgender Air Force troops’ retirement lawsuit
The Advocate
A federal judge ruled that all 17 transgender service members may continue their legal challenge against the Air Force’s decision to revoke early retirements it had already approved. The ruling keeps alive one of the key court fights over how the administration’s trans military ban has been carried out.
Anti-marriage equality campaign is installing billboards attacking queer families across the country
LGBTQ Nation
A Hobby Lobby-funded coalition is rolling out billboards attacking queer families in multiple states, part of a coordinated campaign whose stated goal is overturning Obergefell v. Hodges. The effort lands as marriage equality opponents grow increasingly open about asking the Supreme Court to revisit the 2015 ruling.
Why are gay guys so obsessed with jorts?
GQ
GQ takes on one of the summer’s pressing sartorial questions: how the humble cutoff denim short became a gay wardrobe signature. The piece unpacks the jort’s journey from working-class staple to campy, self-aware queer fashion statement.
Alan Turing: the codebreaker Britain betrayed
Space Daily
A new retrospective revisits the brutal irony of Alan Turing’s life: the Bletchley Park mathematician whose codebreaking is credited with shortening World War II by roughly two years was convicted of “gross indecency” in 1952, chemically castrated, and stripped of his security clearance before dying at 41. His royal pardon arrived only in 2013 — and the roughly 49,000 other men convicted under the same laws waited until “Turing’s law” in 2017 for theirs.
Put Ryan Gosling’s gay little wrist back
Vulture (via Archive.IS)
For La La Land’s tenth-anniversary re-release, Lionsgate has Photoshopped the iconic poster to flatten Ryan Gosling’s famously limp wrist — a change the actor lobbied for after years of calling the pose “La La Hand.” Vulture’s Jason P. Frank is having none of it, likening the retouch to conversion therapy and arguing that the wrist belongs to film history now: no take-backsies.
More people are coming out as ‘male lesbians’ — this is what it means
VT
The label “male lesbian” is gaining traction on social media, used most often by trans men, transmasculine, and non-binary people for whom “lesbian” describes a community, history, and attraction that predates or transcends their gender. The term has sparked real debate, with some lesbians pushing back on any man claiming the word while its adopters insist it captures something no other label does.
Gay twins reveal the things they wish people would stop asking them… especially THAT question
Queerty
Sacramento-based singers Clinton and Calvin Spellman — the Spellman Twinz, with 1.2 million TikTok followers — went viral with a video cataloguing the questions they’re sick of hearing, from whether they fool around together to whether their anatomy matches. The pair make clear none of it is happening, and other gay twins chimed in to confirm the interrogation is depressingly universal.
‘Queer lives aren’t just drama to entertain straight readers’: Fruit Fly writer Josh Silver on reclaiming the gay narrative
Attitude
Josh Silver — actor turned mental health nurse turned novelist — talks to Attitude about Fruit Fly, his darkly funny literary sensation about a burnt-out straight writer who mines a young gay addict’s life for a bestseller. Praised by Russell T Davies as “tough and raw and merciless,” the novel skewers the publishing industry’s fetishization of queer trauma while exploring chemsex and addiction unflinchingly and without judgment.
These courageous Team LGBTQ athletes all won gold at the Commonwealth Games
Outsports
Outsports rounds up the out LGBTQ+ athletes who have claimed gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, celebrating a history of openly queer champions on one of international sport’s biggest stages. The roundup arrives as visibility for out athletes keeps growing even amid political headwinds for trans inclusion in sport.
On the Sea review — a sensitively played tale of forbidden gay love
The Times
Helen Walsh’s slow-burn drama, now in UK cinemas, stars Barry Ward as Jack, a married middle-aged mussel farmer on the North Wales coast whose suppressed desires surface when itinerant deckhand Daniel (Lorne MacFadyen) arrives in his tight-knit fishing community. Critics have drawn inevitable comparisons to God’s Own Country while praising the film’s restraint, its elemental sense of place, and the quietly devastating performances at its center.
Comedian slams former View cohost Star Jones, calls panelist’s ex-husband gay slur
Entertainment Weekly
Lesbian comedian Jessica Kirson recounted a chilly backstage encounter with Star Jones during a View appearance — claiming Jones demanded to be addressed as “Star Jones Reynolds” — and punctuated the story by using a gay slur to describe Jones’s then-husband Al Reynolds, who came out as bisexual in 2017. The remark drew swift criticism, slur-reclamation debates notwithstanding, given it was aimed at a bi man rather than delivered in solidarity.