Queer Vulturing
October 20, 2026
Out Aussie basketball star Isaac Humphries to retire. Can Grindr’s Pleasure Ball challenge the Met Gala? Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his partner, Argentine field hockey player Nicolas Keenan are expecting. Danny Ramirez loved working with Pedro Pascal on Todd Haynes’ queer drama De Noche.
A bad knee ends Isaac Humphries’s playing career at just 28
Attitude; NBL
The openly gay Adelaide 36ers star has retired after a persistent knee injury, ending an eight-season NBL career. He will remain with the club in a role spanning community work, marketing and commercial activities—a new chapter for an athlete celebrated for LGBTQ visibility.
Grindr wants Halloween’s Pleasure Ball to become a gay Met Gala
Adweek
Gay Christmas is getting ambitious: Grindr’s third Pleasure Ball takes over New York on October 22, with a costume contest and room for 700 guests. Marketing chief Tristan Pineiro wants the bash to become a queer rival to the Met Gala.
Tom Cullen treats queer roles as a privilege—and takes the darkness seriously
BBC News
The Weekend star says he approaches queer characters with empathy and research, describing his new thriller Black Church Bay as unusually dark for a British production. Playing a closeted man opposite Joe Locke, Cullen says queer cinema deserves recognition for its range.
Rob Jetten and Nicolás Keenan are preparing for fatherhood
NDTV; Reuters
The Netherlands’ first openly gay prime minister and his hockey-player partner are expecting their first child through surrogacy. Jetten’s party says Dutch friends are helping as surrogate and egg donor without commercial motives.
Three complaints send a library’s colorful book logo into the closet
LGBTQ Nation
Farmville Public Library in North Carolina dropped its 14-year-old logo after three residents complained that its multicolored pages might suggest LGBTQ acceptance. Mayor Alex Joyner condemned the private decision; a public meeting is scheduled for November 2.
The BBC is reportedly casting across genders after cutting queer favorites
Attitude; PinkNews
A proposed dating show is seeking contestants of all genders and sexualities, aged 18 to 26, following the loss of I Kissed a Boy and I Kissed a Girl. The untitled project remains in development, so hold the confetti until there is something to watch.
Danny Ramirez finds Pedro Pascal’s chemistry almost unfairly easy
PinkNews
Ramirez calls Pascal the easiest person to have chemistry with after playing his lover in Todd Haynes’s De Noche. The film pairs a detective and a teacher whose romance sends them fleeing Los Angeles for Mexico; filming wrapped in April.
La Bola Negra makes a case for imagining the queer lives history erased
Decider
Decider argues that the Spanish epic’s speculative storytelling helps recover romances that repression kept out of the historical record. Its case for filling those gaps offers a fresh angle on Los Javis’s film, now in select U.S. theaters ahead of its December 2 Netflix release.
Ed Gamble thanks gay men for the ego boost
The Guardian
The married comedian credits flirtatious messages from gay men with keeping his confidence afloat.
DapperQ sends reclaimed materials and gender freedom down the runway
GO Magazine
At dapperQ’s 11th annual NYFW show, queer designers turned sustainability into spectacle: Harley De Oliveira showed a jacket made from 1,000 tea bags and a dress from 8,000 straws. GO’s backstage report also finds gender-fluid florals, colorful latex and DYKEMINT’s reclaimed patchwork.
Hunter Schafer has already filmed an A24 vampire movie—and calls it wild
GO Magazine
Schafer revealed that she filmed a vampire project earlier this year, teasing what may be her favorite shoot yet. Arkasha Stevenson’s untitled A24 film also features Emma Corrin, Havana Rose Liu and Sophie Wilde; its premise involves a bachelor party spiraling into terror.
Chantel Everett’s next chapter comes with a wife
GO Magazine
The 90 Day Fiancé star married Ashley Bowen on October 17 in Auburn, Alabama, with 60 guests and music from lesbian band 76th Street. The former friends’ romance began with a kiss before Everett left to film Hunt for Love; the happy ending arrived off the resort.