Queer Vulturing
August 29, 2026
Who would you like to see on a queer Love Island? An end-of-summer Speedo update. How to be a side. And why can’t our leaders be more like the Dutch?
11 hunky male celebs we want to see on a queer season of Love Island
OUT
If Love Island USA ever goes fully queer, OUT already has the casting department covered. Its fantasy villa includes Tom Daley, Lukas Gage, Jeremy Pope, Omar Rudberg, Kit Connor, Omar Apollo, Miles Heizer and other queer celebrities, inspired by the viral appetite for last season’s Zach-and-Bryce bromance.
Tim Curry in Clue Was My Queer Icon Before I Even Knew What That Was
Them
Writer Samantha Allen remembers Curry’s Wadsworth in Clue as an early lesson in camp and queer sensibility, long before she had language for either. A lovely, personal addition to this week’s outpouring of tributes to the late actor.
Dolly Parton Supported Trans Man Who Worked With Her for More Than 30 Years
PinkNews
Among the stories resurfacing after Parton’s death is her decades-long relationship with chauffeur and assistant Jason Pirro, a trans man whom she repeatedly thanked in albums and memoirs. It adds a strikingly personal chapter to Parton’s long history as an LGBTQ+ ally.
Arthur Fils Continues to Give Gay Tennis Fans Everything They Want
Outsports
French tennis star Arthur Fils is making a run at the U.S. Open while also becoming a particular favorite of gay tennis fans. Outsports considers the athletic appeal, the social-media appeal and the happy overlap between the two.
Trans Discus Thrower Gets Love From Teammates and Opponents
Outsports
Carter Van Zanten, a trans man competing in discus at Evergreen State, talks about finding support from teammates and competitors. At a moment when trans athletes are routinely reduced to political abstractions, this is a welcome story about an actual athlete and his community.
InstaJocks: Speedos on divers with abs, oh my!
Outsports
Outsports’ weekend social-media roundup heads to the pool and beach, spotlighting diver Ross Haslam and other athletes and fitness personalities. It is the unabashedly thirstier end of queer sports coverage.
The Speedo Seam Wars Heat Up With One Last Summer Blast
Queerty
Is the classic Speedo losing ground to longer trunks? Queerty closes out summer by examining a deeply consequential gay cultural question: how much inseam is too much inseam? Consider it beachwear anthropology with abs.
Queerty
Kal Penn plays Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, Anna Nicole Smith’s gay physician and friend, in a new darkly comic biographical drama. The film revisits the sensational scrutiny Kapoor faced after Smith’s death and the way his sexuality became part of the media spectacle.
Queerty
Benton talks about starring in nonbinary filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford’s Dreams in Nightmares, a road movie centered on Black queer friendship. She also discusses The Gilded Age, the queer films that shaped her and the rock star she would love to play.
How to Be a Side: Beyond Tops, Bottoms, and Verses
Them
Them looks at the growing use of “side” for gay and queer men who enjoy sex without anal penetration. The piece explores the term’s history, lingering stigma and how people are expanding the vocabulary around gay intimacy.
Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos deported from US to UK
BBC News
British far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the United Kingdom after ICE detained him in New Orleans. U.S. officials said he had overstayed his authorization to remain in the country and was subject to a final removal order.
What Happened To Milo Yiannopoulos’ Gay Husband? Marriage, Relationship and Sexuality Explained
PopTV Culture
With Yiannopoulos back in the headlines, PopTV Culture revisits his 2017 marriage to longtime male partner John Campbell and his later claim that he was “ex-gay.” The piece traces the couple’s estrangement and the curious collision between Yiannopoulos’ public reinvention and his still-complicated marital history.
‘New Alfa Gay conservative in town’ — George Santos celebrates Milo Yiannopoulos’ deportation by ICE
Primetimer
George Santos is savoring the deportation of onetime conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, reviving an old feud between the two men. Santos used the occasion to crown himself the new “alfa gay conservative,” giving the story a particularly baroque layer of right-wing queer infighting.
LGBTQ people struggle to get needed health care and pay for it, study finds
The Washington Post
A new KFF survey finds stark disparities in access to health care for LGBTQ+ adults. Nearly six in 10 respondents said they had postponed or skipped needed care, while trans people and LGBTQ+ women reported especially high barriers to getting treatment or paying for it.
Gay Women’s Soccer Star Deletes Photos of Wife and Child After Signing with Saudi Arabian Team
People
Spanish soccer star Esther González has removed most visible photos of her wife, Estefanía, and their baby from Instagram after signing with Saudi club Al Qadisiyah. The move has intensified criticism of the openly gay player’s decision to compete in a country where same-sex relationships are criminalized.
IDutch prime minister’s most viral gay moments with his hunky hockey star fiancé
OUT
The Netherlands’ first openly gay prime minister, Rob Jetten, and his fiancé, Argentine field hockey star Nico Keenan, have become an unexpectedly irresistible queer power couple online. OUT rounds up the kisses, election-night embraces and Olympics moments that have turned the pair into viral ambassadors for very public queer joy.
For these gays, cosplay is a superpower
Queerty
For International Cosplay Day, Queerty rounds up gay cosplayers using elaborate costumes to play with fantasy, fandom, masculinity and self-expression. A visual culture piece with plenty of queer ingenuity on display.
Brad Goreski wakes up in P-town, Errol Barnett goes for a run, Luke Evans saves a seat
Queerty
Queerty’s weekly Instagram sweep catches up with queer celebrities and personalities including Brad Goreski, Errol Barnett and Luke Evans, while also nodding to the week’s Rocky Horror tribute to Tim Curry.
Gay people reveal how they broke their worst addictions
Queerty
Gay men share candid accounts of confronting addiction and the habits that had taken control of their lives. The responses range from substance use to other compulsions, with an emphasis on what finally helped people interrupt the cycle.
Another NBA player inserts himself into WNBA trans athlete debate & calls inclusion “absurdity”
LGBTQ Nation
Former NBA forward Matt Ryan joined the increasingly heated argument over transgender participation in the WNBA, defending former player Enes Kanter Freedom’s anti-trans stance. Social-media users quickly pushed back.
Dolly Parton just inspired a judge to rule against Texas’ drag ban
LGBTQ Nation
LGBTQ Nation’s good-news roundup leads with the federal ruling against Texas’ drag restrictions, in which Dolly Parton’s flamboyant performance style helped illustrate the law’s sweeping reach. The edition also gathers several upbeat LGBTQ+ political and cultural stories from the week.
The best Dolly Parton and Tim Curry movies streaming now
Boston.com
Following the deaths of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, Boston.com offers a weekend streaming guide to the films that made both performers enduring queer icons. Their careers took very different routes to cult status, but both left unusually deep footprints in LGBTQ+ culture.
Kit Connor and Will Poulter are entering their queer horror era with Rapture
QNews
Kit Connor and Will Poulter are heading into medieval queer body horror with Rapture, alongside Manu Ríos. Set during the Black Death, Jordan Tannahill’s film follows monks facing plague victims who return as the undead while centering a deep, passionate relationship between two young monks.
Idaho Saloon That Hosted ‘Hetero Awesome Fest’ Could Become Gay Bar
PinkNews
A crowdfunding effort hopes to buy Idaho’s Old State Saloon, the venue behind the pointedly named “Hetero Awesome Fest,” and transform it into an LGBTQ+ bar and community space. There is something almost too tidy about that plot twist.
Teenage Sex and Death Has Never Been More Entertaining
Washington Blade
The Blade reviews Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. The queer slasher fantasia arrives in theaters today, blending horror, desire, movie fandom and Schoenbrun’s characteristically slippery sense of reality.
Why Bugs Bunny endures as a queer icon & one of history’s great drag queens
Queerty
Queerty’s “A Gay Old Time” looks back at Bugs Bunny’s long history of gender-bending performance, drag and queer-coded comic subversion, arguing that the wisecracking rabbit belongs firmly in the queer-icon canon.
Ricky Martin Returns to the Big Screen in Gael García Bernal’s New Film
The Randy Report
Ricky Martin has joined Hombre al Agua, a surreal comedy-drama written and directed by Gael García Bernal, and is also serving as an executive producer. The film is headed for festival premieres in Venice and Toronto next month.
Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp: In Resonance
BroadwayWorld
Original RENT stars Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp reunite at 54 Below for In Resonance, a concert built around 1980s pop, rock, musical theater and songs tied to their shared history. Tonight’s August 29 performance is also being livestreamed.
My Body, My Cabaret brings LGBTQ+ artists together for bodily autonomy
BroadwayWorld
The second annual My Body, My Cabaret takes over The Green Room 42 tonight with young women and LGBTQ+ performers raising money for the New York Abortion Access Fund and Black Trans Liberation. The program combines musical theater with advocacy for abortion and trans justice.
‘Mom, I made the team!’ — Gay NFL cheerleader’s emotional video goes viral
Outsports
Jackson O’Brien learned just after receiving his college diploma that he had made the Philadelphia Eagles cheer squad, then immediately called his mother with the news. The openly gay dancer’s emotional video has drawn millions of views, and he’ll be one of four men on the Eagles’ 32-member cheer team.
Sports Media LGBT+
Grassroots footballer Jack Turner is preparing to walk 339 miles from Bristol to Wembley to raise awareness of homophobia in sport. Turner writes candidly about growing up around anti-gay language in football and how finding an LGBTQ-inclusive team finally gave him a place where he could play without hiding part of himself.
Dolly Parton said she once lost look-alike contest to drag queen
Snopes
Yes, the gloriously Dolly-esque story is true, or at least Parton herself repeatedly said it was. Snopes revisits her account of entering a Dolly Parton look-alike contest at a Los Angeles gay bar, exaggerating her famous features for the occasion, and losing to a drag queen.
Missi Pyle comes out as queer: ‘I’m looking for a person’
PinkNews
Galaxy Quest and Dodgeball actor Missi Pyle has opened up about her sexuality on Evan Ross Katz’s Netflix series Shut Up Evan. Pyle says that although most of her relationships have been heterosexual, she has had others and is now less concerned with gender than with finding the right person.
“Weirdly overly accurate”: How Paul Baker captures a canonic bi male experience in Adults
Queerty
The second season of Adults finds sexually fluid Paul Baker moving between very different friend groups and seemingly different versions of himself. Queerty considers how the comedy captures a familiar bisexual experience: navigating masculinity, femininity and identity depending on the room you’re in.