Madonna’s tour reigns supreme, Paul Mescal’s thicc thigh takeover, Mike Pence’s alleged gay lover
By Johnny Lopez · 33 comments· Updated on January 26, 2024
It’s Monday (again). A lot happened over the weekend. Here’s just some of what you might have missed…
QUEER AS F*CK: Russell T. Davies, creator of Queer As Folk,It’s A Sin, and current Doctor Who showrunner, is looking to write a new darker LGBTQ+ series with the rise in anti-gay rhetoric in the last few years. [BBC]
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN: A London theater has cancelled the premiere of Control, Kevin Spacey’s first film since being acquitted of sexual assault charges, due to the Oscar winner’s involvement in the project. Spacey does not appear in the film, but his voice is heard in phone calls. [Variety]
DON’T TELL MOTHER: A man interrupted anti-LGBTQ+ ex-Vice President Mike Pence‘s 2024 campaign event by claiming to have “proof” they were gay lovers.
“Mike Pence, are you going to tell them? … You promised today was our Coming Out Day … Mike Pence and I are gay … I'll admit your John Deere is bigger than mine.”
— Mike Pence is heckled before he officially registers for the New Hampshire GOP presidential primary ballot pic.twitter.com/RfaOAweKt9
MR. & MRS. SMITH: Jada Pinkett Smith continued on her bombshell revelation tour by addressing the longtime rumors that she and estranged husband Will Smith are gay and swingers. [DailyMail]
HE BANGS: Ricky Martin put on a mesmerizing performance as the closing act on the first night of the Trilogy Tour alongside Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias. The Latin superstars will hit 19 cities before the tour wraps in December. [USA Today]
THICC THIGHS SAVE LIVES: Short shorts king Paul Mescal took his luscious hams for a high-fashion spin by going pantless in a new Gucci campaign.
DARK BRANDON: Don’t necessarily believe all those polls, because President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden received a minute-long standing ovation and chants of “four more years” at the HRC National Dinner. [WATCH VIDEO]
HAPPILY EVER AFTER: Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey has tied the knot with queer singer Phem, who he previously said is the woman who helped him realize he is sexually fluid. [E! News]
PATSY & EDINA 2.0: Seven years after Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie was released, Jennifer Saunders is set to write a new screenplay by the end of the year based on the original hit British comedy series. [Entertainment Weekly]
QUEEN OF POP: As if your social media feed wasn’t taken over, Madonna is getting rave reviews as her Celebration Tour finally launched after a three-month delay due to her nearly-fatal health scare. In addition to triumphantly performing more than 30 hits, she brought out her daughters, clocked her former lovers, and paid an emotional tribute to friends lost to HIV/AIDS. There’s only one queen!
Bawling my eyes out at the sad ending of Holiday as Madonna paid tribute to everyone that died from AIDS bridging into Live To Tell. pic.twitter.com/XM4Qg99ie6
Pastor Greg Locke accused the “abominable” and “demonic” drag performer of witchcraft.
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I was at Madonnas opening night and it was incredible. She looks and sounds amazing. The stage, the dancers, just everything about the show was mind blowing. I want to see the show again.
As a fan, I was terrified this would be a royal mess; she’s not had the easiest time of it the last few years. Somehow Madonna has fixed her face and put on a tremendous show worthy of her standing as Queen of Pop.
Jennifer Saunders is perhaps my favorite comedian. I have to admit that and say that I’m thrilled she’s writing another Ab Fab movie. But it grieves me a bit to share something in common with abfab.
I’ve parted ways with HRC after decades of support over their lunatic left turn into the gender wars. I have little good to say for them these days and think they ultimately hurt the LGBT cause now. So, we may agree on that.
Run Trump against Uncle Joe again and Trump will lose gain.
Whose current poll? Maybe the extreme leftists on this site should take your position more seriously and scare them out of their arrogant insistence on alienating everyone else.
I understand Madonna is 60+ and has been through a lot recently but from the clips I’ve seen, she looked tired and not really into it. Honestly it was given me Britney 2007 VMA performance vibes. She made a smart decision to surround herself with “high energy” dancers and performers to hide her “low energy”
She’s one of a few over 60 who can even walk in that high of a heel, much less display “high energy”. Way too many people trying to tell her how to age. I say let her have it her way, she’s earned it.
I was there and she was not low energy at all. The show is 2 hours and she moves around the entire time. More importantly, she sounds really good. The show was so much fun and very high energy. Also, it was her first show since almost dying earlier in the year.
Seems to me she put on a hell of a show. My concern will be if she can keep it up, however, Madonna remains the Queen of Pop and this show should remind you why.
I recently had an email conversation with a friend from DC about how toxic, depressing, and virtually inhuman the state of humanity has become, not only around the world, but here in the U.S. Queerty and a couple of other sites used to be a refuge. But now I come here and the same sort of toxicity dominates most of the comment sections.
You don’t have to be a Madonna fan, but as gay people who have fought for rights and respect I would think we wouldn’t descend to rampant ageism, comments about how people look, etc. I’ve been essentially neutral about Madonna the performer, but based on the clips I’ve seen the performance reported on here looks incredible. Apparently some people feel that public figures should just crawl into a hole and give up once they reach 60. Mad props to Madonna for still giving it her all, for essentially saying “f*ck you” to the haters, and simply for being entertaining. The world is a better place with her in it and performing.
60? The U.S. is such a hyper-ageist country that anyone over 40 is considered a pariah and worthy of the dust bin. But I’m not really seeing any ageist comments on this thread about Madonna, except for one weak one, so not sure what you’re reading. Besides, why focus on negative commenters? They’ll always be around but they don’t deserve attention.
Scott, just to clarify, the ageist comments were generated by multiple stories on Queerty in the past about Madonna. I included ageism as just one of the things I repeatedly see expressed, and yes, there have been more of them and more egregious ones on other threads. As I said, I say that as someone who is essentially neutral on Madonna the performer.
I think we used to be more united before the gender wars and the attacks on women and confused children from the trans mafia. They went too far and are too toxic to not breed intense hatred from a huge portion of the population, liberal and conservative; which they will not admit and may actually be their goal. Just wait for the personal attacks that will likely follow as proof.
That said, there has always been a contingent of nasty, catty queens with nothing good to say except about themselves. These are the men who donate zero in time or money and are a waste of mascara. They have always been our albatross. Trust me, I could never get these queens to even bother to vote they were and are so jaded and selfish. Always some excuse not to do the right thing. Never a reason not to pop shade.
Let me set your mind at ease. The end of the world may be near, but the behavior of people hasn’t changed. They simply have superior tools that amplify bad behavior.
Criticizing celebrities who won’t age gracefully (or politicians who won’t retire sensibly) isn’t “ageism”. Age discrimination exists in the workplace, but when the term is used as you used it, it’s nothing more than a club employed indiscriminately to silence people who say things we don’t like.
One of the most intense emotional reactions I’ve had to the enormity of the AIDS catastrophe was the fantasy sequence at the end of “Longtime Companion” when the 3 friends are walking on the beach and are suddenly joined by all the friends and lovers they had lost to the plague. I was overwhelmed by the feeling of what could (and should) have been. And then the fantasy friends faded away and we were left with reality. What I’ve seen of Madonna’s AIDS tribute in her recent performance brought back those feelings. Never forget.
These kids have no idea what we lived through with AIDS and the hatred it amplified. We should never forget those we lost and the holes they left in our lives. But we should also remember that some of us are still here and many of us could use a hug.
That Pence interruption was HILARIOUS!!! I’m sure every cell in his hateful body was crying. Hats off to the guy who did it, although I don’t know that I would ever publicly admit having an affair with vile, hideous Pence, even in jest.
Pence is terrible but this guy is a kook. Just like the guy who claimed to have had sex with Obama. The media shouldn’t empower these poor sick people.
I would like to remind you that she is 65 and it is normal that she can no longer do pirouettes like when she was 20. Btw, the show was incredible, infinitely better than Medellin and Madame X. Welcome back queen!
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Gabby
I was at Madonnas opening night and it was incredible. She looks and sounds amazing. The stage, the dancers, just everything about the show was mind blowing. I want to see the show again.
bachy
WOW! So happy you got a chance to go. You’re a true-blue fan!
LumpyPillows
As a fan, I was terrified this would be a royal mess; she’s not had the easiest time of it the last few years. Somehow Madonna has fixed her face and put on a tremendous show worthy of her standing as Queen of Pop.
ShaverC
She looks a mess, can barely move.
LumpyPillows
I beg to differ. She looks great. While at 65 she doesn’t have the same moves as she did, the choreography is amazing.
fab0497
She’s 65 and had health problems. Give her a break!
FreddieW
“Don’t necessarily believe all those polls” because folks at an HRC event are so representative of all American voters. Talk about insular …
FreddieW
Jennifer Saunders is perhaps my favorite comedian. I have to admit that and say that I’m thrilled she’s writing another Ab Fab movie. But it grieves me a bit to share something in common with abfab.
henare
i feel like she makes more announcements about this than she actually makes abfab movies.
LumpyPillows
Me too. I loved the movie and can’t wait for another.
As far as that queerty commentor of the same name, who shares his opinion ad nauseum, he’s only irritating and wrong half the time.
Baron Wiseman
“Don’t necessarily believe all those polls, because President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden received a minute-long standing ovation….”
Yes, when 5% of an insular population are the predictor of the next election.
Of which, 28% of LGBT voted for Trump in 2020, doubled from 2016.
LumpyPillows
I’ve parted ways with HRC after decades of support over their lunatic left turn into the gender wars. I have little good to say for them these days and think they ultimately hurt the LGBT cause now. So, we may agree on that.
Run Trump against Uncle Joe again and Trump will lose gain.
Baron Wiseman
@LumpyPillows
Perhaps, but not by current polling.
LumpyPillows
Whose current poll? Maybe the extreme leftists on this site should take your position more seriously and scare them out of their arrogant insistence on alienating everyone else.
henare
while paul mescal is attractive, that photo is borderline weird. certainly no thicc thighs saving lives here …
SoloMcDaniel
I understand Madonna is 60+ and has been through a lot recently but from the clips I’ve seen, she looked tired and not really into it. Honestly it was given me Britney 2007 VMA performance vibes. She made a smart decision to surround herself with “high energy” dancers and performers to hide her “low energy”
bachy
Don’t tell me you’re one of those fans who calls out a beloved performer for being unable to dance in their 60s like they did in their 20s?
Openminded
She’s one of a few over 60 who can even walk in that high of a heel, much less display “high energy”. Way too many people trying to tell her how to age. I say let her have it her way, she’s earned it.
Gabby
I was there and she was not low energy at all. The show is 2 hours and she moves around the entire time. More importantly, she sounds really good. The show was so much fun and very high energy. Also, it was her first show since almost dying earlier in the year.
LumpyPillows
Seems to me she put on a hell of a show. My concern will be if she can keep it up, however, Madonna remains the Queen of Pop and this show should remind you why.
DennisMpls
I recently had an email conversation with a friend from DC about how toxic, depressing, and virtually inhuman the state of humanity has become, not only around the world, but here in the U.S. Queerty and a couple of other sites used to be a refuge. But now I come here and the same sort of toxicity dominates most of the comment sections.
You don’t have to be a Madonna fan, but as gay people who have fought for rights and respect I would think we wouldn’t descend to rampant ageism, comments about how people look, etc. I’ve been essentially neutral about Madonna the performer, but based on the clips I’ve seen the performance reported on here looks incredible. Apparently some people feel that public figures should just crawl into a hole and give up once they reach 60. Mad props to Madonna for still giving it her all, for essentially saying “f*ck you” to the haters, and simply for being entertaining. The world is a better place with her in it and performing.
MynameisSid
Exactly ???
ScottOnEarth
60? The U.S. is such a hyper-ageist country that anyone over 40 is considered a pariah and worthy of the dust bin. But I’m not really seeing any ageist comments on this thread about Madonna, except for one weak one, so not sure what you’re reading. Besides, why focus on negative commenters? They’ll always be around but they don’t deserve attention.
DennisMpls
Scott, just to clarify, the ageist comments were generated by multiple stories on Queerty in the past about Madonna. I included ageism as just one of the things I repeatedly see expressed, and yes, there have been more of them and more egregious ones on other threads. As I said, I say that as someone who is essentially neutral on Madonna the performer.
LumpyPillows
I think we used to be more united before the gender wars and the attacks on women and confused children from the trans mafia. They went too far and are too toxic to not breed intense hatred from a huge portion of the population, liberal and conservative; which they will not admit and may actually be their goal. Just wait for the personal attacks that will likely follow as proof.
That said, there has always been a contingent of nasty, catty queens with nothing good to say except about themselves. These are the men who donate zero in time or money and are a waste of mascara. They have always been our albatross. Trust me, I could never get these queens to even bother to vote they were and are so jaded and selfish. Always some excuse not to do the right thing. Never a reason not to pop shade.
FreddieW
Let me set your mind at ease. The end of the world may be near, but the behavior of people hasn’t changed. They simply have superior tools that amplify bad behavior.
Criticizing celebrities who won’t age gracefully (or politicians who won’t retire sensibly) isn’t “ageism”. Age discrimination exists in the workplace, but when the term is used as you used it, it’s nothing more than a club employed indiscriminately to silence people who say things we don’t like.
DennisMpls
One of the most intense emotional reactions I’ve had to the enormity of the AIDS catastrophe was the fantasy sequence at the end of “Longtime Companion” when the 3 friends are walking on the beach and are suddenly joined by all the friends and lovers they had lost to the plague. I was overwhelmed by the feeling of what could (and should) have been. And then the fantasy friends faded away and we were left with reality. What I’ve seen of Madonna’s AIDS tribute in her recent performance brought back those feelings. Never forget.
LumpyPillows
These kids have no idea what we lived through with AIDS and the hatred it amplified. We should never forget those we lost and the holes they left in our lives. But we should also remember that some of us are still here and many of us could use a hug.
ScottOnEarth
That Pence interruption was HILARIOUS!!! I’m sure every cell in his hateful body was crying. Hats off to the guy who did it, although I don’t know that I would ever publicly admit having an affair with vile, hideous Pence, even in jest.
dbmcvey
Pence is terrible but this guy is a kook. Just like the guy who claimed to have had sex with Obama. The media shouldn’t empower these poor sick people.
fab0497
I would like to remind you that she is 65 and it is normal that she can no longer do pirouettes like when she was 20. Btw, the show was incredible, infinitely better than Medellin and Madame X. Welcome back queen!
sterlings8
We are sure Paul Mescal is a fine person, but thick thighs, no dear. I’ve seen thicker thighs in a KFC box. Love me some thick thighs…