Exes reunite on Canada’s Drag Race, the secret to all those glistening shirtless chests in Fire Island revealed, and an olympic swimmer comes out.
Canada’s Drag Race
The season three trailer for Canada’s Drag Race is here and it features some familiar faces including lead judge Brooke Lynn Hytes’ former paramour Miss Vanjie Mateo.
All Star Shore
It’s Miss Vanjie, Miss Vanjie, Miss Vanjie... back on your TV screens. The Drag Race alum is headed to a new reality gig, the “reality party competition series,” All Star Shore on Paramount+. Mateo will be joining a cast of reality stars from Jersey Shore, Love, Island, The Circle, Jersey Shore, and more to compete for cash and stir up the drama. All Star Shore premieres done on Paramount+.
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
The trailer for season three of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is here and it's bringing along some very familiar faces: JoJo Siwa and Jesse Tyler Ferguson Season three premieres on July 27 on Disney+.
Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt (Terminal List) would like you to know he does not attend the anti-LGBTQ+ Hillsong church. “I never went to Hillsong. I’ve never actually been to Hillsong. I don’t know anyone from that church,” he told Men’s Health. As for why he hadn’t denied these allegations previously when Elliot Page initially called him out he explained: “I’m gonna, like, throw a church under the bus? If it’s like the Westboro Baptist Church, that’s different.”
He also had some choice words for the church in general. “I didn’t know that I would kind of become the face of religion when really I’m not a religious person. I think there’s a distinction between being religious — adhering to the customs created by man, oftentimes appropriating the awe reserved for who I believe is a very real God — and using it to control people, to take money from people, to abuse children, to steal land, to justify hatred. Whatever it is. The evil that’s in the heart of every single man has glommed on to the back of religion and come along for the ride.”
Glistening Shirtless Scenes
Top Gun Maverick and Fire Island gave both the girlies and gays exactly what they needed this summer: glistening shirtless men. And who do we have to thank? Oil. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter makeup artist Jay Ellis explained how he achieved those glowing torsos.
“It was avocado oil and sunflower seed oil and castor oil and coconut oil, it was a lot of oils — literally we probably all had four or five layers of different types of oils on us to really make sure the muscles popped,” Ellis said.
Olympic Swimmer Daniel Jervis Comes Out.
Welsh Olympic swimmer Daniel Jervis came out as gay. “It took 24 years to be who I was, but now I’m happy,” he told the BBC’s The LGBT Sport Podcast. “I look in the mirror and I like who I am.”
“I love God, and out of all the things in my life, my faith is what I’m most proud of,” he said. “And there is this thing where people say you can’t be Christian and gay together, and I was sitting there knowing you can be because I am!”
Daniel Franzese Opens Up about Conversion Therapy & Brainwashing
Out actor Daniel Franzese is beloved for his role as Damian in Mean Girls, but in a heartbreaking interview with Page Six, he speaks of not loving himself. He detailed being brainwashed and underwent conversion therapy.
“I went to one-on-one therapy sessions with a person who was trying to change me straight and make me pray the gay away and alienate all my allies,” Franzese said, including his mother. “They told me to tell my mom that my mom was the reason that I was leaning toward bisexual thoughts or whatever because she was so open. They made me come out to my mom, who was literally like my best ally, and say, ‘It’s your fault.’”
Hari Nef Has A New Gig
Trans actor Hari Nef is headlining a scripted podcast from executive producer Mark Duplass. The podcast, Lina’s Song, is set in Berlin in the ’80s and was inspired by writer and director Elliot Tuttle’s (Horse Girl) life. “I wrote ‘Lina’s Song’ after moving to Los Angeles from Maine, and at this point, I was living a full gay life. I was inspired by the difference of queer livelihood and its subversive nature. I just had a lot of thoughts about my newfound queer life and queer longing; this story was an exciting way to channel those ideas.”
Mira Sorvino Teases a Romy & Michele Sequel
Bestill our gay hearts, Mira Sorvino gave an exciting update regarding a Romy & Michele sequel while speaking with TODAY. “There’s nothing official to report but I can unofficially hint that we’re closer than we’ve ever been to getting something to happen,” Sorvino said. “Every other time I’ve appeared I would be like, ‘Come on please, let’s do something,’ and now I’m like, ‘Okay, okay, we’re getting closer.’ So very excited.”
