Queer Vulturing
October 23, 2026
How about a queer James Bond? Why is Meta shutting down queer bars social media? Looking for a big Halloween bash? And Chris Colfer is back in a new camp horror movie.
Licence to thrill: eleven queer actors who could wear Bond’s tux
PinkNews — list feature
Jonathan Bailey, Ncuti Gatwa, Andrew Scott, Colman Domingo and Luke Evans are among Maggie Baska’s 11 queer picks to succeed Daniel Craig. PinkNews makes the case for its own fantasy casting, from action credentials to sheer star power.
Meta gives gay bars the disappearing act
Them
Anthem Orlando says Instagram suspended both its main account and its replacement without identifying an offending post. Them traces similar shutdowns at queer venues from Orlando to San Francisco, where getting an actual human to intervene appears to be the trick.
Rui Takahashi braced for disaster. His brother shrugged—and backed him
Outsports
The Japanese volleyball pro says he was prepared to leave the sport if coming out ended badly. Instead, his star brother Ran’s relaxed response helped put him at ease, followed by support from teammates, fans and customers at his mother’s Kyoto café.
The Housewives have migrated south. Naturally, the gays came too
Out
Luann, Sonja, Ramona, Dorinda and Kelly reunite in Palm Beach for E!’s The Golden Life, with Luann’s gay entourage joining the action. The former RHONY stars tell Out about the queer fans who helped bring them back to television; Hulu streaming begins November 3.
Thirteen places to let your Halloween harness out of the closet
GayCities
GayCities maps a Halloween itinerary from London’s BASH to Berlin’s Unleashed, with Bears in Space x Horse Meat Disco in Los Angeles among the stops. New York’s two-day City of Gods gets an early start this weekend with a Gothic Folly theme.
Festival laurels look lovely. They do not pay the rent
GLAAD
Filmmaker Brandon R. Nicholas spent nearly $4,000 submitting two shorts to more than 70 festivals—more than making one of the films cost. His account punctures the fantasy that applause automatically leads to a deal, while finding real value in the queer community built along the way.
The next Bond is still classified, despite all those shortlists
Daily Mail; PA via The Irish News
Reports put Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O’Connor in the mix as final screen tests approach, while earlier accounts included Jacob Elordi. The names keep shifting; a casting announcement has yet to settle who gets Daniel Craig’s dinner jacket.
Sasha Velour brings witches, police raids and queer history to the stage
Beverly Press
Travesty arrives at Beverly Hills’ Wallis on October 29 and 30, threading drag, lip-sync and costume design through scenes of queer resistance and survival. Expect a witch burning, a clown building a theater and an underground gay bar confronting the police.
Have queer teens vanished—or has the headline swallowed the data?
Xtra — opinion
James Factora challenges conservative claims that LGBTQ identification among teens is in free fall, examining how a selective reading of survey findings became a culture-war talking point. The essay also asks what hostile politics might mean for young people’s willingness to disclose their identities.
Chris Colfer is back—and his hands have a mind of their own
Moviejawn
A poppers-related accident, a monstrous mother and murderous prosthetics: The Restoration at Grayson Manor is keeping busy. Harper Rochel Goldman finds its unapologetic queerness, Colfer–Alice Krige sparring and commitment to camp worth the low-budget rough edges.
Los Javis tailored their gay war epic to a singer—and his song changed it
Gold Derby
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo explain why they wrote La Bola Negra’s Sebastián for Guitarricadelafuente, whose original song helped reshape their images of the film. Their interview also covers the struggle to braid three timelines together and the divas who first made them feel less alone.
Bride of Frankenstein or Death Becomes Her? Choose your camp fright
Queerty
Queerty is collecting readers’ favorite campy queer horror films, with Bride of Frankenstein, Death Becomes Her and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 offered as conversation starters. A ballot where Meryl and the monsters can both win.
A flooded queer youth center is building a bigger home
LGBTQ Nation
A water leak left Out Youth’s Little Blue Bungalow uninhabitable. The Texas LGBTQ nonprofit is now rebuilding with a larger home for the community it serves.
Five queer-inclusive reads put a little magic on the middle-grade shelf
Mombian
Mombian spotlights five recent LGBTQ-inclusive books for middle-grade readers. Four blend magic with everyday life; the fifth brings drag into the picture, which is its own kind of transformation.