Jinkx Monsoon’s next act, Morgan Spector is pro-bottoming & all the best LGBTQ+ releases this week
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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:
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- I Kissed A Boy, Season 2 — Now Available (Hulu): The BBC’s gay reality dating series returns seeing if two guys can find love at first kiss, hosted by Dannii Minogue!
- Jeanette — Now Available (VOD): A documentary following a lesbian single mother & competitive bodybuilder who is a survivor of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub tragedy & Puerto Rico’s Hurricane María.
- Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-Shero — Now Available (VOD): An indie adult animated feature about a shy barista who becomes a super-powered drag queen, feat. an all-star voice cast.
- Sally — Now Available (Disney+/Hulu): The amazing story of the trailblazing female astronaut, as told by her long-time partner who she largely had to keep a secret from the world.
- The Buccaneers, Season 2 — June 18 (AppleTV+): A coming-of-age period piece following five young American socialites during London’s debutante season, co-starring Josie Totah.
- Brokeback Mountain 20th Anniversary Release — June 20 (Select Theaters): Ang Lee’s groundbreaking cowboy-on-cowboy romantic drama is back in theaters for a limited time.
- Noah’s Arc: The Movie — June 20 (Paramount+): Following up the iconic series, this new comedy finds Noah (Darryl Stephens) & Wade (Jensen Atwood) facing fatherhood.
- Olympo — June 20 (Netflix): In the same vein as Elite, this Spanish-language soap follows the steamy drama at a prestigious academy where the country’s top athletes train.
- The Queen Of My Dreams — June 20 (Select Theaters): A young queer woman has a Bollywood-inspired trip to Pakistan, where she’s reunited with her estranged mother.
- Winter Kept Us Warm — June 21 (NY Theaters): An all-new restoration of this 1965 hidden gem of queer cinema which follows two college friends with an unmistakable romantic connection.
- King Of Drag — June 22 (Revry): Murray Hill hosts this first-ever drag king competition series with 10 incredible contestants & an amazing crop of guests judges like Gottmik & Lisa Rinna.
- The Gilded Age, Season 3 — June 22 (HBO/Max): Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, “clock twink,” and more return for high-society period piece that was made for the gays.
Culture Catch-Up
OH, MOTHER!: A new supreme rises as Drag Race‘s Queen Of All Queens Jinkx Monsoon is set to take over the title role of Cole Escola’s Tony-winning Broadway smash Oh, Mary! for a limited engagement beginning August 4 following Tituss Burgess’s encore run. Perfect casting, no notes! [Playbill]
WHO’S ON TOP?: After facing queerbaiting accusations for saying he identifies “creatively” as a bottom, The Gilded Age hunk Morgan Spector is setting the record, um, straight: “Straight guys can’t bottom?” he wonders in a new interview. “People can play with dominance and submission in heterosexual relationships.” [GQ]
IT’S A DADDY-OFF: The lookalike contest trend is still going strong, and you’ll hear no complaints from us because an NYC restaurant held one over the weekend in honor of everyone’s favorite daddy Pedro Pascal! You’ve got to watch he winner’s charming plea to his celeb doppelgänger on The Daily Show [Queerty]
BI-CON?: This week would’ve marked chart-topping rapper Tupac Shakur’s 54th birthday. With an Instagram post in his memory, filmmaker Bruce LaBruce has got people talking, examining the late legend’s relationship to queerness, positing he was “at least bisexual.” [INTO]
HELLO DOLLY: Country queen & longtime ally to the gays, Dolly Parton is finally getting the Oscar she’s always deserved, and it’s an honorary award for her tireless humanitarian work including her culture-shifting LGBTQ+ activism, which she’ll receive at The Academy’s Governor Awards gala this fall. [LGBTQNation]
LIVE FROM NEW YORK: This week, Queerty threw a bash in downtown NYC to celebrate our 2025 Pride50 honorees, and the stars came out to party! Check our stylish red carpet photo call, featuring Tramell Tillman, Racquel Chevremont, Nathan Lee Graham, and plenty more of our favorite queens & queers.
HERE TO SLAY: Drag Race All-Star Shea Couleé is about to make herstory in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the new Disney+ series Ironheart as an ally to hero RiRi Williams who is “fierce hacker” and, as she reveals, has a mysterious drag past. [Entertainment Weekly]
HOWDY PARTNER: The landmark Brokeback Mountain returns to theaters for its 20th anniversary this week, but years before those cowboys pitched a tent, Gus Van Sant literally blazed new trails for gay cinema with the hustler drama My Own Private Idaho—here’s why it deserves to be championed as a queer classic. [Queerty]
WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: Known for playing Modern Family‘s Lily Tucker-Pritchett—the adorably feisty daughter of Cam & Mitch—actor Aubrey Anderson-Emmons has come out as bisexual via an Instagram video that hilariously calls back to one of her character’s funniest scenes. [People]
SCREEN CRUSH: Once best known for her trending dance moves, Addison Rae is now pop music’s newest It Girl, so it’s pretty cool that for her latest video “Times Like These”—off her better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be debut album—she cast the trans-masc heartthrob behind popular TikTok account Giovanni’s Kitchen. [INTO]
COMIC RELIEF: If you, like us, live for comedian Drew Lausch‘s hilarious videos (that “POV: you just hooked up with a therapist” bit is everything), don’t miss his new solo show FRIENDLIEST June 26 at Brooklyn Art Haus about “a self-destructive comic book artist attempting to create the first queer superhero.” [Eventbrite]
WITCHY WONDER: Speaking of Jinkx Monsoon, the Broadway star’s been named this year’s Logo Legend, so, to celebrate, they’ve thrown her a delightful dinner party with her iconic friends—including BenDeLaCreme, Murray Hill & Anania—plus some A-list cameos. And, lucky us, you can watch the whole thing right here:
The Final Hump
Frankie Grande is in his pop star era and, ahead of his new album Hotel Rock Bottom‘s release on June 27, he popped by LatiNation Media’s groundbreaking, GLAAD-award winning queer talk series, The Q Agenda to talk about all the pain and pleasure that went into crafting his highly personal, highly danceable music debut. Now in its 11th season—themed “Through and Beyond the Rainbow”—The Q Agenda finds hosts Enrique Sapene, Juliana Joel, Lianna Carrera, Carolina Gutierrez, and Victor Ramos delving into the ” depth, diversity, and beauty of the LGBTQ+ experience” with exciting voices from the community. You can stream the series premiere right now via LATV, which features Grande as a guest, as well as Laganja Estranja & influencer Kunno, and check out a preview clip below featuring Grande on what it means for him to celebrate Pride Month now 8 years sober.
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