Call Me By Your Name sequel rumors, Cynthia Erivo on toxic fans & all the best LGBTQ+ releases this week

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

• A Few Feet Away — Now Streaming (Dekkoo): In Buenos Aires, a 20-year old gay man (Max Suen) challenges himself to ditch the apps, setting out across the city for a shot at real connection.
• Blowie — Now Available VOD): Real-life adult film performers star in this slasher about spicy content creators who film at a secluded mansion where they’re stalked by a doll-faced madman.
• The Four Seasons, Season 2 — May 28 (Netflix): Colman Domingo & Marco Calvani return as our favorite bickering—but loving!—duo in Tina Fey’s comedy about couples who vacation together.
• Hacks, Series Finale — May 28 (HBO Max): For its final act, the beloved comedy sends Deborah & Ava on a European vacation and, ooh baby, you better believe there will be tears!
• Backrooms — May 29 (Theaters): This buzzy liminal spaces horror from 20-year-old director Kane Parsons has Renate Reinsve, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and… Finn Bennett as a crop-top wearing twink???
• Deli Boys, Season 2 — May 29 (Hulu): A dark comedy about two Pakistani American brothers who get tangled up in their late father’s criminal underworld, co-starring Andrew Rannells & Tan France.
• Miss You, Love You — May 29 (HBO Max): From Jim Rash, this drama follows a grieving widow’s (Allison Janney) unexpected bond with her estranged son’s assistant (Andrew Rannells, again!).
• The Moment — May 29 (HBO Max): Charli XCX’s sharply funny & surprisingly personal mockumentary about her life in the wake of her Brat album’s breakthrough success.

Culture Catch-Up

GAY-FOR-PAY: Following his Oscar-winning turn as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Rami Malek will once again play a gay man with AIDS in Ira Sachs’s ’80s NYC-set The Man I Love, and out actors like Wilson Cruz, Guy Branum & Johnny Sibilly are taking to social media to make their feelings known. [Queerty]

FOR GOOD: After the whirlwind (tornado?) that was the multi-year Wicked press tour, Cynthia Erivo jumped right into an ambitious stage production of Dracula on the West End, but now the star is pausing to reflect on it all, from toxic fandoms to Ariana Grande rumors to Wicked: For Good’s Oscars snubs. [Variety]

ANSWER THE CALL: After a series of vague tweets that stoked rumors of a long-awaited sequel to the achingly beautiful queer romance Call Me By Your Name, Sony Pictures Classics has announced the Luca Guadagnino-directed film is coming back tot heaters for one week only, just in time for Pride.

CONDRAGULATIONS: If the winner of this year’s International Mr. Leather—the annual event celebrating the leather community—looks familiar, that’s because Honey Davenport once competed on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11. She’s decidedly more bearded & burly now, but as gorgeous as ever! [GayCities]

MAN OF THE HOUR: Amidst a very busy year, Andrew Scott reflects on being the casually villainous face of AI in Hollywood for The Comeback‘s final season & previews his upcoming biopic role as Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor who passed from AIDS in 1990: “It’s the biggest acting challenge that I’ve ever had.” [THR]

SCREAM QUEENS: After winning the prestigious Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, Jane Schoeburn’s Teenage Sex & Death At Camp Miasma (out Aug. 7) has unleashed a bloody good new trailer spotlighting Hannah Einbinder & Gillian Anderson‘s chemistry without giving away too many of its slasher surprises.

SCARY GOOD: Obsession is the little indie horror that could, making a record-breaking box office in its second weekend for a current total $68 million gross off of an under $1 million budget! With LGBTQ+ identifying stars (Michael Johnston is gay, Inde Navarrette is bi), that feels like a huge win for the gays, too! [Variety]

SPEAKING OUT: On the podcast Uncloseted, Peppermint sheds light on how trans women of color have long moved the community forward & gets brutally honest about the state of mainstream media, even calling on her RuGirl sisters to speak out against Drag Race‘s Tr*mp-backed parent company Paramount. [LGBTQNation]

HEARTSTOPPER SUMMER: Netflix’s beloved gay teen romance series will come to an end on July 17 with the feature-length Heartstopper Forever, and we’ve already got tears in our eyes looking at these preview photos of our precious bbs Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) & Charlie Spring (Joe Locke).

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GREEK TO ME: While the right freaks out over trans actor Elliot Page‘s (still unconfirmed!) role as Achilles in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming ancient epic The Odyssey, they’re forgetting the mythical Greek hero’s story has always been queer, including his intensely homosocial bond with his friend Patroclus. [LGBTQNation]

OUT ON THE FIELD: The FIFA World Cup begins in the middle of Pride Month, so to celebrate Pride House LA/West Hollywood has unveiled a slate of events in support of the Out Athlete Fund including watch parties, performances, a special reunion panel for out Major League soccer players, & more. [WeHo Times]

TRAIL-BLAZE: Back in ’16, Queen of Bounce Big Freedia & the late SOPHIE linked up for a recording session that brought together two of the most influential queer voices in music, and now they’re releasing a 3-song EP from those sessions on June 19 feat. single “Blaze That *ss” that’ll have you dancing this Pride, for sure!

The Final Hump

The story of two high school seniors pretending to be trans so they can sneak into the girls’ locker room sounds like every conservative’s worst nightmare come true, but upcoming indie She’s The He only uses that provocative premise as the set-up for a hilarious & heartwarming teen comedy that satirizes gender-benders like She’s The Man for a new generation. At first, besties Alex (stand-up comic Nico Carney) & Ethan (Freaky‘s Misha Osherovich) are only pretending they’re trans to quell the gay rumors about them, but things take a turn when their elaborate ruse has Ethan realizing that, wait, she actually is trans!

From writer-director Siobhan McCarthy, She’s The He boasts a predominantly LGBTQ+ cast that also includes Mark Indelicato (Hacks), Malia Pyles (Pretty Little Lies: Original Sin), Tatiana Ringsby (Chicago Fire) & Emmett Preciado (Good Trouble), and seems destined to be a queer classic for years to come. Ahead of its June 5 opening in NYC & Houston (before expanding to more cities later in the month), Queerty is delighted to share an exclusive preview clip that doubles as an intro to its colorful world, as Alex & Ethan dish on all the school’s gossip with the latter’s loving mother (played by sitcom icon Suzanne Cryer). Check it out below:

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