Queer Vulturing
October 7, 2026
Andrew Scott talks about his role in Elsinore. Fruit Fly author Josh Silver say ‘just say gay.’ Revisiting No Skin Off My Ass, Bruce LaBruce’s scrappy masterpiece. Chris Colfer on Glee reboot.
Andrew Scott on Elsinore, Hamlet and being gay
Yahoo News UK
Andrew Scott discusses the screen project Elsinore and the way his life as a gay actor informs, but does not confine, his approach to classical material. Scott continues to make queerness feel less like a casting category than one current running through a remarkably varied career.
Corey Webster was suspended for homophobia. Now he’s joining a team with an out gay player.
Outsports
Three years after a homophobic social-media post earned him a suspension, New Zealand basketball player Corey Webster has signed with the Adelaide 36ers, the NBL club of out gay player Isaac Humphries. The move puts apology, accountability and locker-room inclusion back in the same frame.
Trump’s gay niece urges voters to reject ‘insanity’ as she talks ‘best revenge’
PinkNews
Mary Trump, the president’s out lesbian niece and longtime critic, is urging Americans to vote in the midterms, mocking her uncle’s reversal on mail voting and arguing that electoral participation is the most effective response to his politics.
Filmmaker Sam Teale comes out as gay in powerful short film
Attitude
British filmmaker Sam Teale comes out publicly through a deeply personal short film, turning the camera on his own experience of identity and disclosure. It is a compact example of filmmaking functioning simultaneously as art, confession and queer testimony.
Fruit Fly author Josh Silver wants publishers to ‘just say gay’
Newsweek
Author Josh Silver discusses queer fiction, publishing and the reluctance to market books explicitly as gay. The conversation arrives amid continuing debates over whether broad-market language expands readership or quietly sands away the specificity that gives queer work its bite.
There We Were, and We Could Be Naked: Stanley Stellar’s Gay New York
AnOther
Photographer Stanley Stellar looks back at the gay men, streets, bodies and social worlds he documented in New York. His images preserve a city and a queer culture shaped by sexual liberation, AIDS, loss and survival, without reducing the subjects to history-book symbols.
California politics story puts LGBTQ issues back in the Capitol spotlight
The Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento Bee reports on a developing California political story with LGBTQ implications as state politics barrels toward the midterms. It is another reminder that battles over queer rights are increasingly being fought not only in Washington but in statehouses.
Western Pennsylvania lawmaker accused of gay slurs resigns from House committees
TribLIVE
A Pennsylvania legislator accused of making anti-gay slurs about a colleague has stepped down from House committee posts. The fallout turns what might once have been dismissed as barroom ugliness into a test of institutional accountability.
Anthony Bowens’ historic title wins, advocacy and ‘He’s gay’ chant anchor his AEW legacy
Outsports
Out wrestler Anthony Bowens has made his sexuality part of professional wrestling’s spectacle without allowing it to define the limits of his character. Outsports looks at the titles, crowd connection and gleefully reclaimed ‘He’s gay’ chant that have made his AEW career distinctive.
Meta censors Austin gay bars after flagging trans posts and drag-queen photos
LGBTQ Nation
Austin LGBTQ bars say Meta has restricted or removed content involving trans people and drag performers, disrupting the social-media channels nightlife venues rely on for promotion. The dispute raises familiar questions about automated moderation and whose bodies get classified as risky.
Chris Colfer breaks silence on a Glee reboot as Ryan Murphy finishes script
PinkNews
Chris Colfer has weighed in as Ryan Murphy moves ahead with a script for a possible Glee reboot. Any return to McKinley High would arrive in a very different queer television landscape from the one in which Kurt Hummel became a landmark mainstream gay teen character.
35 years later, Bruce LaBruce’s DIY masterpiece remains unmatched
Queerty
Thirty-five years after No Skin Off My Ass, Queerty revisits Bruce LaBruce’s scrappy, sexually explicit debut and its place outside the more respectable borders of New Queer Cinema. The film’s punk refusal of polish still feels like a useful corrective to today’s increasingly corporate queer culture.
That time Dennis Hastert covered up a gay GOP scandal while hiding an even darker secret of his own
Queerty
Queerty revisits the Mark Foley scandal and former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s role in the Republican response, viewed through what later emerged about Hastert himself. It is a grim piece of political archaeology about secrecy, hypocrisy and institutional protection.
Out coach Mitch Dalton takes over Texas women’s swimming
Outsports
Mitch Dalton brings experience at the University of Texas and USA Swimming to his first college head-coaching job. His appointment adds another openly gay figure to the still-small but increasingly visible ranks of out leaders in major collegiate athletics.
Harvey Milk’s former camera shop is now a queer community hub
Atlas Obscura
The Castro storefront that housed Harvey Milk’s camera shop has become a living queer community space rather than a sealed historical relic. Atlas Obscura explores how a site synonymous with gay political history is being used to connect that history to the present.
Book review: The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love
Omnivorous
A new book traces the religious and cultural construction of Western hostility toward queer love, asking readers to look beyond the assumption that sexual morality has always taken its modern form. The review weighs an ambitious attempt to excavate the history beneath contemporary culture wars.
We’re crushing hard on these Black queer celebs in 2026
DIVA
DIVA spotlights Black queer performers and public figures making an impression this year. The celebratory roundup doubles as a snapshot of how much broader queer celebrity culture has become, particularly beyond the white gay male faces that once dominated mainstream visibility.
Two decades later, Zsazsa Zaturnnah remains a queer icon
GMA Network
Twenty years after the character’s screen breakthrough, the flamboyant Filipino superhero Zsazsa Zaturnnah remains a potent queer cultural figure. The retrospective considers how a gay beautician transformed by a magical stone became an enduring fusion of camp, fantasy and Filipino LGBTQ identity.
10 underrated queer horror films to watch during creepy season
But Why Tho?
Queer horror extends far beyond the usual canonical titles, and this list digs into ten films worth adding to an October watchlist. Monsters, desire, repression and transformation have always made horror fertile queer territory; these selections widen the map.
Russell T Davies is terrified by the return of anti-LGBTQ+ hate
Instinct
Russell T Davies says the renewed intensity of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric helped propel his latest work. Few television writers have chronicled modern gay life as persistently, making his alarm over the current climate both political commentary and an artistic statement of purpose.
Small town shuts down pro-ICE film that mocks queer Renée Good
LGBTQ Nation
A planned screening of a pro-ICE film was canceled after controversy over its treatment of queer activist Renée Good. The dispute turns a local exhibition decision into a larger argument about propaganda, political provocation and the use of queer people as culture-war targets.
Horror comedy The Blood Countess imagines Elizabeth Báthory as a lesbian vampire
Autostraddle
Ulrike Ottinger’s The Blood Countess brings Isabelle Huppert’s Elizabeth Báthory into modern Vienna in search of a cure for vampirism. Autostraddle looks at a deliciously odd addition to the season’s queer horror crop from one of lesbian cinema’s great formal adventurers.
Circa Queer Histories Festival screens Chocolate Babies and puts queer history onstage
ONE Institute / Circa
Los Angeles’ Circa festival continues LGBTQ+ History Month with screenings, talks, performances and workshops, including an October 7 presentation of Stephen Winter’s 1996 cult film Chocolate Babies. The monthlong festival treats queer history as something unruly, artistic and still in motion.
Reel Q’s 41st LGBTQ+ film festival continues with Barbara Forever
Reel Q
Pittsburgh’s long-running Reel Q festival is in full swing, with 14 features and five shorts programs and pay-what-you-can admission. The October 7 program includes Barbara Forever, part of a slate that shows how regional queer film festivals remain vital exhibition spaces.