Need a boost to get over Hump Day? The Hot Sheet is Queerty’s midweek pop culture catch-up, highlighting the entertainment stories everyone’s talking about, the ones you might’ve missed, and the notable LGBTQ+ film & TV releases in the days ahead. Here’s everything you need to stay in-the-know:
What To Watch
- Living For The Dead — Now Streaming (Hulu): Queer Eye but for ghosts? That’s the elevator pitch for this paranormal docuseries produced by Kristen Stewart, which promises “AAH!’s” and “awws”
- Big Mouth, Season 7 — Oct. 20 (Netflix): The animated series about how gross puberty can be is back to tackle middle school graduation, featuring the voice talents of Megan Thee Stallion.
- Dicks: The Musical — Oct. 20 (Theaters): Speaking of, the hip-hop icon also stars in this raunchy queer comedy that has to be seen to be believed, now expanding to theaters everywhere.
- Elite, Season 7 — Oct. 20 (Netflix): The Spanish soap is back for more sexy melodrama at a prestigious prep school, with new students and pop star Anitta joining the cast.
- Killers Of The Flower Moon — Oct. 20 (Theaters): Lily Gladstone broke out with a queer role in the indie Certain Women, and now she stars in this Martin Scorsese epic opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.
- Last Summer Of Nathan Lee — Oct. 20 (Select Theaters): Queerty fave Quentin Lee helms this emotional coming-of-age story about a dying teen whose gay bestie makes a film about his life.
- Nyad — Oct. 20 (Select Theaters): Annette Bening stars in this biopic of Diana Nyad, the lesbian woman who, at 64, made history when she swam from Cuba to Florida.
- The Persian Version — Oct. 20 (Select Theaters): In this Sundance award-winner, a queer Iranian-American woman has to cope with her massive family and her mother’s secret past.
- Strange Way Of Life — Oct. 20 (Mubi): Pedro Almodóvar’s much-discussed Western short about two men (Pedro Pascal, Ethan Hawke) on opposite side of the law finally comes to streaming.
Culture Catch-Up
GOOD BUNNY: Bad Bunny may have recently gone “Instagram Official” with Kendall Jenner, but the sizzling hot star—who just released his fifth album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana—continues to use his platform to uplift the LGBTQ+ community. [Read all about it on LGBTQNation]
ROYAL INVITATION: It’s been nearly a year since the last episodes of Young Royals, so fans of the Swedish romance assumed the third and final season was imminent. Well, Netflix just revealed it’s coming at some point in 2024, which means we’ll have to wait a while longer, but they thankfully shared this flirty teaser clip as a consolation:
HORROR HAUS: Nü-Gothic horror The Fall Of The House Of Usher is the hit streaming series of Spooky Season, and for good reason: It’s an absolute blast with a wickedly watchable cast of queer characters [Read all about it on Queerty]
VIDEO VIXEN: Because we apparently can’t have a new Troye Sivan video without sparking another heated online debate, the visuals for standout single “One Of Your Girls” have got the gays fighting over what’s considered “drag” and what’s “crossdressing.” [Read all about it on INTO]
ON THE HUNT: Gays love ghost stories, and lucky for us, Hulu’s charming queer paranormal investigation series Living For The Dead has plenty of them. Now streaming, Queerty has an exclusive look at episode 7, “Where There’s A Will, There’s A Slay,” as the spirit-hunting gang explores a dilapidated Cleveland apartment with a storied past that’d be kind of chic if it wasn’t so… haunted.
DRAG GOES GLOBAL: Just a day after World Of Wonder announced new seasons of international Drag Race franchises in France, the Philippines, and Thailand, our sisters from the North at Canada’s Drag Race revealed their stacked cast of queens for season four, returning Nov. 16. [EW]
UNAFRAID TO LOVE: Everyone’s American Idol “Crush” David Archuleta, just took the stage this week at the LOVELOUD festival and is opening up about connecting with—and performing for—queer audiences on a deeper level. [Read all about it on INTO]
ACTING UP, STANDING OUT: Trailblazing activist and ACT UP LA member Connie Norman gets a long overdue spotlight in the powerful documentary AIDS Diva: The Legend Of Connie Norman, which those in Los Angeles will be able to catch for free this week at the 2023 CIRCA Queer Histories Festival. [CIRCA]
SOAKED: Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez are all currently starring in a Broadway revival of Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, and their adorable friendship is on full display in Vanity Fair‘s “Lie Detector Test,” in which Groff’s admission that “everything gets wets” on stage will have you in tears. [Vanity Fair]
QUEEN OF POP: Madonna‘s career-spanning The Celebration Tour kicked off this past weekend, so in… celebration we’ve got a look back at 10 songs you might not have realized she wrote for other pop stars, from Ricky Martin to Kylie Minogue. [Read all about it on Queerty]
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL: Writer/Director/Performer/Professional Hottie Max Emerson has launched a Kickstarter for the release of his highly anticipated novel, The Sparkle Club, about a disgraced “gay-baiting” influencer forced to do a summer of community service on a rural farm. [Kickstarter]
EGGS & LEGS: Did you know drag was once billed as “dinner theater” as a loophole for conservative crossdressing laws? That’s how the storied gay tradition of drag brunch first began. [Read all about it on LGBTQNation]
RIDE’EM, COWBOY: Best known as the gay rancher on Hallmark’s Western drama Ride, Jake Foy’s really been turning up the heat lately with some shirtless Instagram posts. The only bad news? He’s recently off the market. (Congrats, Jake and Nicolas!)
The Final Hump
Part of the reason The Rocky Horror Pictures Show is such a classic is that it’s truly one-of-a-kind. But even if no film could ever fill Dr. Frank-n-Futer’s heels, the horror-comedy musical Big Easy Queens might be a worthy spiritual successor—a new indie that offers a queer sense of humor, campy grotesqueries, drag diva drama, and plenty of catchy original songs. Director Erynn Dalton’s feature is already earning a cult following as it plays film festivals across the country, and ahead of its bow at the OutShine fest in Miami this weekend, Queerty has an exclusive preview of one of its standout numbers, “Comes With The Territory,” as performed by drag legend Miss Bouvèé.
Check it out for yourself below, and don’t miss Big Easy Queens when it plays a theater near you.
Kangol2
Bad Bunny is a hot bunny, that’s for sure.
SDR94103
some people will jump on anything. Tired of the queer baiting on this site.
mz.sam
You got that right!
mujerado
Oh, come on! You know what to expect on this site. If you truly don’t want it, don’t come here!
SUPREME
who is it that forces you to visit this site?
mz.sam
No matter how social and mainstream media tries to twist themselves into an inclusionary pretzel, Bad Bunny (aka Benito Martinez Ocasio) with his current popular persona is a blatant opportunistic Queer-baiter. His core song writing and music catalog (in Spanish) is promoting his Hetero interests and sexual prowess with women. Compare him to a true Latino LGBTQ+ artist, singer/songwriter Omar Apollo. Period.
dennynova
I could easily have survived today without seeing he “Big Easy Queens” trailer.
dbmcvey
It looks fun!
barryaksarben
Bad Bunny has been a GREAT ally and I would rather have stars queerbaiting than insulting us constantly. Every interview and many of his videos bad bunny is always gay positive. But then Im older and I was around with truly vile songs that called us the worst things imaginable. WE NEED ALLIES and will until the christian churches have dissolved into the slime they emerged from. Organized religion is organized crime and they try to deflect scrutiny by screaming about us