Alexander Skarsgård gets smutty, Alanis Morissette comes out & all the best LGBTQ+ releases this week
Stay in-the-know with Queerty's midweek pop culture catch-up.
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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 This Week
- Avedon — Now Streaming (Netflix): A documentary about the life & legacy of famed photographer Richard Avedon, who was posthumously identified as bi—might that be explored in the film?
- Lunar Sway — Now Available (VOD): In this indie neo-Western, a lonely bi man reconnects with the mother he never knew & the pair wind up on a dangerous desert road trip fighting for their lives.
- The Body — Now Streaming (Netflix): After an initiation ritual gone wrong, the dance team at a Catholic all-girls school start having dark visions in this coming-of-age thriller with Gabby Windey.
- Rivals, Season 2 Part 2 — Now Streaming (Hulu): his soapy British drama about the feud to rule the airwaves in the ’80s is a hell of a lot of fun and features a gay love story that may surprise you!
- The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives: Orange County — Nov. 12 (Hulu): This Cali-set reality spin-off features Aspyn Ovard, who’s in a polyamorous throuple with a man and a woman.
- Bitter Christmas — Nov. 13 (Select theaters): Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar blurs fiction & reality in his drama about a filmmaker whose own tragedies & intimacies inspire his next work.
Culture Catch-Up
ONE STEP AWAY?: Here’s a confession for ya: The status of the long-gestating Madonna biopic changes “every hour,” according to actress Julia Garner, who was cast to play the pop star way back in June ’22. And while she’d “love for the movie to get made, obviously,” at least it made her besties with Madonna! [Deadline]
HAT TRICK: Though its yet to be officially confirmed, word has gotten out that hot hockey romance Heated Rivalry hasn’t just been filming its second season this year, but also its third and a feature-length special episode rumored to adapt author Rachel Reid‘s short story Merry Christmas, Scott And Kip! [Outsports]
KNOCK ON WOOD: Fresh off of getting audiences frisky for sticks in the romantasy Wicker, Alexander Skarsgård is the latest star to team up with audio-erotica Quinn, narrating the original fan-fiction story Felled about a young woman who falls for a tree. We can’t wait to have our wicker-daddy whispering in our ear…
DIVINE CASTING: And speaking of Skarsgård, he’ll be reuniting with his dom-com Pillion co-star Harry Melling opposite Hunter Schafer in the wild psycho-drama The Confessions about a group of nuns who discover “the accursed, globe-spanning love triangle of a missing sea captain and his poet wife.” We are so in! [Variety]
QUEERING CINEMA: Is Club Kid conservative? Is La Bola Negra fascist? Two of the biggest queer films of the fall have apparently also become two of the most controversial—depending on who you ask! We dive into the discourse & try to figure out why LGBTQ+ movies often tend to stir up such heated debate. [Queerty]
HOST WITH THE MOST: Beloved Gaydar host Anania has a new variety series coming to Tubi, and to celebrate she’s hosting a drag show on Nov. 12 at Brooklyn’s 3 Dollar Bill feat. Aja, Luxx Noir London & more! Come for the fierce lip-syncs & stay for a special sneak peek of The Anania Show‘s Nov. 23 premiere. [Tickets]
THIS KISS: Thanks to his trailblazing role as Dawson’s Creek‘s Jack McPhee, Kerr Smith is part of LGBTQ+ history as one half of TV’s first gay male kiss, and in his new memoir I Don’t Want To Wait, the actor is opening up about the surprising—and sometimes scary—reactions to that landmark moment. [People]
YOU OUGHTA KNOW: Forever iconic Jagged Little Pill singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette recently guested on the Handsome podcast where she told hosts Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster & Mae Martin she was pansexual, opening up publicly about her identity for the very first time. [LGBTQNation]
TRICK AND TREAT: Available for the first time on Nov. 24, oddball indie Room Temperature is the story of a family who turns their home into a DIY haunted house every Halloween season, while a queer connection stirs between the young son & his childhood friend—no wonder John Waters called it one of his favorites of 2025!
KISS & TELL: Netflix’s The Later Daters is a dating reality show that follows older singles looking for love, and it’ll return for a star-studded second season on Dec. 30, which this time will follow famous faces dipping into the dating pool, featuring—most notably for our purposes—queer comic Margaret Cho! [Variety]
THE HEAD & THE HEART: Jonathan Bailey‘s leading man era is imminent with the out star lining up an exciting new project called Insomniac City. The gay romantic drama is the true story of writer Bill Hayes (Bailey) fell for Dr. Oliver Sacks (Bill Nighy), the famed neurologist 30 years his senior. [Queerty]
JENNY FROM THE…: From the Bronx to Sin City to the comfort of your very own couch, Jennifer Lopez is bringing her celebrated Las Vegas residency The JLo Show to Paramount+ on Nov. 26—and, yes, that’s Thanksgiving day, which is fitting because mother is about to eat that stage up and leave no crumbs!
The Final Hump
What we’re going to keep doing is uplifting Tinashe, okay??? Hot off of her eight album Popstar earning rave reviews and the highest Billboard chart ranking of her career, the queer singer-songwriter made her long-overdue late-night TV debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, reminding the world why she has always been that girl. Tinashe delivered vocals and choreo, offering up a mini-medley that began with a stripped-down rendition of the titular track followed by a sickening transition into booty-shaking banger “Melatonin,” complete with a dance break nod to her idol Janet Jackson’s iconic “Throb” dance. Yes, she’s “studied the ancient texts,” as the gays have pointed out, and we’re so excited to continue watching her cement herself as one of the greats.
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