Queer Vulturing
September 2, 2026
The Traitors’ Freddie Fraser opens up. Sunday in the Park without Jonathan Bailey. Who will play George? San Diego repeals bathhouse restrictions. Trump gets homophobic over hockey.
The Traitors Freddie Fraser on boyfriend Bailey Ramsden and the homophobia he faced at school
Attitude
The Traitors star Freddie Fraser discusses his recently public relationship with content creator Bailey Ramsden and the homophobia he experienced growing up. Fraser came out publicly this summer after hard-launching the relationship on social media.
Jonathan Bailey quits Sunday in the Park With George after Ariana Grande exit
PinkNews
Jonathan Bailey has withdrawn from the planned 2027 West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park With George, following Ariana Grande’s earlier departure. The production is moving ahead, but now faces the formidable task of replacing both of its originally announced stars.
Variety
Andrew Garfield is once again making the case for a gay or bisexual Spider-Man, more than a decade after first floating the idea. The actor’s renewed enthusiasm has revived the perennial question of whether one of pop culture’s biggest superheroes could finally be written as queer.
Elliot Page says he got no acting offers after The Odyssey: “I was seen different before”
PinkNews
Elliot Page says no acting offers followed his appearance in The Odyssey, and suggests the industry now sees him differently than it did before his transition. His comments put another spotlight on the gap between Hollywood’s public embrace of trans visibility and the actual roles available to trans performers.
Queer figure skating Olympic gold medallist Amber Glenn joins Dancing With the Stars
PinkNews
Olympic champion Amber Glenn is trading the ice for the ballroom as a contestant on the new season of Dancing With the Stars. The openly queer skater will be paired with professional dancer Pasha Pashkov.
Out pro wrestling legend Mercedes Martinez retires due to injury
Outsports
Mercedes Martinez is ending her 26-year wrestling career after suffering a torn ACL in August. The openly gay former ROH Women’s World Champion had already planned for 2026 to be her final year, but the injury has brought that farewell run to an abrupt close.
Outsports
Curler Andrew Picard is pursuing a place on the U.S. Olympic team while being deliberately visible as a gay athlete. He talks about moving to Minnesota for its curling community and why he wants younger athletes to see that sexuality need not define their competitive identity.
Pose star Indya Moore says she no longer identifies as non-binary
Attitude
Pose actor Indya Moore has spoken about a change in how she describes her gender, saying she no longer identifies as non-binary. Moore’s comments reflect the intensely personal and sometimes evolving language people use to describe gender identity.
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Denali marries Alexander Montgomery in intimate Chicago wedding
People
Drag Race favorite Denali has married Alexander Montgomery in Chicago. The intimate celebration centered queer family and community, with the couple sharing details of a wedding designed to feel personal rather than spectacle-sized.
Jordan Firstman and Matteo Lane lead U.S. voice cast of Cannes breakout gay comedy Jim Queen
Variety
Jordan Firstman and Matteo Lane will lead the English-language voice cast of the gay animated comedy Jim Queen. Nicole Byer, John Cameron Mitchell, Bob the Drag Queen and Wendie Malick round out a notably queer-friendly ensemble for the Cannes breakout.
San Diego repeals bathhouse ordinance passed during the HIV/AIDS crisis
PinkNews
San Diego has repealed a decades-old bathhouse ordinance rooted in the fear and stigma of the early HIV/AIDS crisis. The move removes a piece of municipal law that LGBTQ+ advocates say had long outlived both its public-health rationale and its era.
LGBTQ+ Arizonans gather in mourning and defiance after deadly gay bar shooting
The Advocate
Arizona’s LGBTQ+ community is gathering after two men were killed outside Tucson gay bar Venture-N. Police say the suspected gunman had a list of queer businesses, deepening concerns that the attack was part of a broader plan targeting LGBTQ+ spaces.
Meet Everton Blair, the 34-year-old gay lawmaker who was just sworn into Congress
Queerty
Georgia Democrat Everton “EJ” Blair Jr. has been sworn into the U.S. House after winning a special election in the state’s 13th District. The 34-year-old becomes Georgia’s first openly gay man elected to Congress.
Atlanta Black Pride celebrates 20 years with festival, parties and community events
CBS News Atlanta
Atlanta Black Pride begins today with nearly a week of cultural events, nightlife, community programming and the Pure Heat Community Festival. The 20th-anniversary celebration continues through Labor Day and will also raise money for LGBTQ+ youth and HIV/AIDS programs.
theGrio
Bevy Smith and Nathan Hale Williams discuss the long creative and cultural exchange between Black women and Black queer and gay men. The conversation accompanies an Atlanta Black Pride event examining allyship, influence and the relationships behind shared cultural movements.
The Disappearers Stages the Pain and Pleasure of Jamaican Gay Life
The New Yorker
Katy Waldman reviews Marlon James’s new novel, which follows a group of gay men in 1980s Jamaica seeking love, connection and restitution after a violent homophobic attack. The novel explores the ways prejudice can force queer lives into ever smaller spaces while still making room for pleasure, intimacy and survival.
Too Far? Trump Renames Hockey “Gay Ice Football”
The Babylon Bee
The conservative satire site takes aim at Trump’s battles with Canada by imagining an executive order rechristening hockey “Gay Ice Football.” The joke leans gleefully into homoerotic hockey imagery, from fighting and shirt-pulling to men pinning one another against the boards.
‘Heated Rivalry Lives On’: Kaden Connors on Queer TV, Steamy Scenes and Season Two Hopes
NOW Toronto
Kaden Connors, who plays Sasha, talks about filming intimate scenes with Connor Storrie, working with an intimacy coordinator and what the series’ unapologetically queer focus means to him. He also weighs in on Sasha’s history with Ilya and teases his hopes for flashbacks when season two arrives.