Queer Vulturing
September 7, 2026
Actor alleges theater company fired him over his OnlyFans content. The Traitors‘ Freddie Fraser opens up about being bisexual. Is La Bola Negra the film of the year? Can you be too nice when you hookup?
Gay former OnlyFans star says he was fired from a job because of his adult film career
OUT
Actor Andrew Bonomolo says he lost a theater job after the company learned about his previous adult-film and OnlyFans work. Bonomolo argues that the firing exposes a stubborn double standard around sex work, respectability and who is allowed to leave an adult-entertainment career behind.
How Fan Headcanon Turned Fern Mayo Trans in the Jawbreaker Musical
Them
The stage musical of the 1999 cult comedy is making Fern Mayo/Vylette transgender, with nonbinary actor AJ Paramo in the role. Writer Darren Stein says a message from trans actor Eve Lindley helped him recognize the trans resonance already embedded in Fern’s transformation story.
Kim Petras Says the Gays “Saved” Her, Wants Fans to Hook Up With “Whoever, Whenever”
Them
On her first visit to Fire Island Pines, Petras performed tracks from Detour and talked about the queer clubs and fans who sustained her career. Now working as an independent artist, she sounds especially interested in keeping the dance floor horny, communal and defiantly queer.
NHL Team Cancels Pride Night, So Fans Decide to Host One Anyway
Them / Out
The Dallas Stars dropped Pride Night from their 2026–27 promotional calendar after five seasons. Longtime fan Tori Copeland responded by organizing an unofficial queer fan night, a neat bit of grassroots pushback as corporate and sports Pride programming continues to shrink.
U.S. Open Pride Was One Big Queer Celebration, Where Tennis Visibility Was the Star
Outsports
While some sports organizations are quietly backing away from Pride, the U.S. Open went conspicuously in the other direction. Rainbow branding filled the grounds, queer athletes and guests were visible throughout the event, and out doubles star Demi Schuurs supplied the day with a win.
The Traitors’ Star Who Was National Track Champ Hard-Launches Boyfriend as He Talks About Coming Out
Outsports
British reality star and former elite runner Freddie Fraser has publicly discussed being bisexual after appearing with boyfriend Bailey Ramsden. Fraser says fear of homophobia helped keep him quiet, particularly during his years as a competitive athlete.
California Can Keep Allowing Trans Athletes to Compete After Judge Tosses Federal Lawsuit
Outsports
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s attempt to force California to bar transgender student-athletes from teams matching their gender identity. The ruling found that Title IX did not clearly make federal funding conditional on the administration’s interpretation.
What It’s Like to Run an LGBTQ+ Summer Camp in Donald Trump’s America
LGBTQ Nation
Queer summer camps are trying to give LGBTQ+ kids a place where they can simply be kids, even as the political climate makes those spaces more necessary and harder to sustain. The report looks at the financial and emotional strain on programs serving young people from childhood through their teens.
Everton Blair Makes History as Georgia’s First-Ever Gay U.S. House Representative
LGBTQ Nation
Everton “EJ” Blair Jr., 34, has been sworn in as Georgia’s first openly gay member of the U.S. House. He won a special runoff to complete the late Rep. David Scott’s term, making the milestone a brief but notable four-month chapter before the November election.
La Bola Negra Review: Magic and Maximalism Mix in Los Javis’ Stunning Gay Extravaganza [A] Telluride
AwardsWatch
AwardsWatch’s Erik Anderson gives Los Javis’ La Bola Negra an enthusiastic reception at Telluride, describing the time-spanning queer Spanish epic as an audacious collision of history, melodrama, music and visual excess. Another strong notice for a film that is rapidly becoming one of the season’s major queer titles.
A Gunman Targeted Tucson’s LGBTQ+ Community. A Thousand Arizonans Answered With Love
Them
Around 1,000 people gathered at Tucson’s Catalina Park to remember Vincent Anthony Siqueiros and Cameron Davis Capara, the two gay men killed outside Venture-N. Police have described the shooting as a targeted anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime; the vigil turned grief into a striking public assertion of community.
Right-Wing Forces Tried to Stop These Archivists From Preserving LGBTQ+ History. They Failed.
LGBTQ Nation / Alabama Reflector
Invisible Histories, which preserves Southern LGBTQ+ history, faced political hostility and funding pressures in Alabama before relocating to Charlotte. The story is a useful reminder that archival work is not dusty housekeeping: when queer history becomes politically inconvenient, preserving it becomes an act of resistance.
Bianca Del Rio looks ‘unrecognisable’ after Plastique Tiara makeover as Drag Race fans lose it
PinkNews
Plastique Tiara gives Bianca Del Rio a full soft-glam transformation on Beauty Bar, temporarily trading one of Drag Race’s most recognizable painted faces for something startlingly different. The makeover quickly became a fandom event and reignited the eternal drag debate over polish, exaggeration and identity.
PinkNews
Joe Lycett’s new Channel 4 live variety show has opened to sharply divided reactions, with critics questioning whether its deliberately chaotic pub-night format has enough structure to survive weekly television. One episode in, it already looks destined to be either an inspired evolving mess or simply a mess.
Ecuador adoption law bars LGBTQ+ couples and adds custody risk for parents supporting trans children
PinkNews
LGBTQ+ advocates are condemning Ecuador’s new adoption reform, which restricts adoption to different-sex couples and heterosexual single people. Critics are also alarmed by language that could threaten custody for parents accused of “promoting” gender-affirming care for trans children.
Can you be “too nice” when hosting a hookup?
Queerty
A gay man’s question about whether offering hookups drinks, snacks and other creature comforts makes him too hospitable has launched a discussion about gay hookup etiquette. Somewhere between Grindr and Martha Stewart, apparently, lies the proper protocol.
Queerty
Queerty surveys the songs gay listeners kept in heavy rotation this summer, from dance-floor pop to the season’s more unexpected obsessions. Consider it an unofficial queer soundtrack for the moment when summer starts packing its bags.
MNEK’s ‘MUSCLE MARY’S..’ Gets Very Gay, Very Naked
Instinct
MNEK’s latest BULLDOZER!! single arrives with showers, thongs, naked men and enough gym-body iconography to make subtlety file for unemployment. Beneath the gleefully homoerotic visuals, the song digs into male body image, insecurity and the pressures lurking underneath all that muscle.
MTV’s Davis Mallory Reveals Girlfriend After Saying He’s No Longer Gay
Instinct
Former Real World: Denver cast member Davis Mallory has introduced girlfriend Rachel Vaughan after publicly changing how he describes his sexuality. His latest chapter has prompted renewed conversation about labels, fluidity and the peculiar pressure placed on public figures to make sexuality legible to everyone else.
Forget Fairy Tales, Chris Colfer Is Ready for Blood
Instinct
Chris Colfer returns to the big screen in the gothic horror-comedy The Restoration at Grayson Manor, playing a hedonistic heir whose prosthetic hands appear to tap directly into his darkest impulses. After years building fantasy worlds on the page, the Glee alumnus is heading somewhere considerably bloodier.
Heated Rivalry’s Creator Was An Absolute Menace On His Canadian Sitcom
TVLine
Before Jacob Tierney brought queer hockey romance Heated Rivalry to television, he played the gloriously unhinged, sexually suggestive Pastor Glen on Letterkenny. The piece traces the queer sensibility running through Tierney’s earlier work, including Letterkenny’s gay hockey-adjacent characters, and shows that Heated Rivalry did not exactly materialize from nowhere.
This Brazilian Queer Romance Is Trending on Netflix for All the Right Reasons
High On Films
Brazilian queer coming-of-age romance Here The Whole Time (Quinze Dias) is finding an international audience on Netflix, where High On Films reports it has reached No. 8 globally. Based on Vitor Martins’ novel, the film mixes first love, body-image anxiety, family conflict and self-acceptance in the story of Felipe and his childhood friend Caio.
Queer Edward II – first-look review
Little White Lies
Theo Rollason’s documentary draws on previously unseen footage from the making of Derek Jarman’s radical 1991 Edward II. Little White Lies finds the result a jubilant portrait of Jarman at work, with the director’s charisma, political conviction and queer defiance emerging as the film’s real center of gravity.