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| Photo on right by Christopher Marrs Old Hollywood loved a beautiful lie. The gowns, the flashbulbs, the backlot gossip, the studio-approved romances, the private lives that were never really private. Rasheed Newson’s There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood walks straight into that glittering machine and asks what it cost to keep it running, especially for a Black star whose talent, desirability, and queerness made him both valuable and vulnerable. Xavier C.

Photos provided Jose Chanduvi has traveled Latin America as a professional ballet dancer. But next week, he’s off to Spain, where he’ll make history as part of the gayest sporting event of the year. The Gay Games, founded in 1982 by trailblazing out Olympic decathlete Tom Waddell, gathers LGBTQ+ athletes from all over the world every four years. This year, the legendary event will take place in Valencia, Spain.

When we first reported on the curious case of GOP congressman Thomas Kean Jr., it was back in May, when the guy hadn’t been seen publicly since March. Now it’s mid-June, and he’s still nowhere to be seen. That’s not stopping his employees from showing up for him in ever more quizzical ways as the New Jersey rep.’s mysterious “long illness” continues.

Leviticus might be the first horror movie to ever make us scream and swoon, sometimes in the same scene! From writer-director Adrian Chiarella, the acclaimed film takes us to a small, conservative Australian town where teenaged transplant Naim (Joe Bird, breakout star of the ’22 horror Talk To Me) quickly falls for his new classmate Ryan (Thrash‘s Stacy Clausen).

There’s regular Broadway debuts, and then there’s making your Broadway debut in seven-inch heels as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Luke Evans, thankfully, chose the second option. The Welsh actor earned a Tony nomination for The Rocky Horror Show, a full circle moment for someone who once performed “Sweet Transvestite” at his London Studio Centre showcase. Evans told Broadway.com that the transformation into Frank still hits him every night.

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Pete Buttigieg marked his eighth wedding anniversary with a sweet social media posting. Alongside photos of himself and husband Chasten, Pete said, “Eight years married and I still can’t get enough of that smile. Happy Anniversary, my love!” On Instagram, the photo gained over 160k likes in less than 24 hours. Many of the replies said the same thing: They want to see Buttigieg run again for the Presidency. Many others just wanted to congratulate the couple on their anniversary.

Image Credit: ‘The Devil Queen,’ Kino Lorber If we told you there was a movie about a drag queen crime lord, you might assume it was something modern, a reflection of a time with a greater breadth of queer representation on screen. Yet the Brazilian drama The Devil Queen—or “A Rainha Diaba”—is from 1974, and considering it’s over half-a-century old, it’s a surprisingly progressive, shockingly lurid, and unabashedly queer tale that still feels fresh today.

Tr*mp biographer Michael Wolff delivered some truly stomach-churning news when he spoke in May about Tr*mp and Epstein’s twist “pussy committee” dreams for Princess Di back in the 1990s. But just in case you wanted a fresh dose of nausea, Wolff is back with even more gross tea about Tr*mp’s sex life, and it’s not what you’d think. Well, in a certain way, it’s exactly what you’d think.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Landon Roupp told members of the LGBTQ+ community to “read the Bible” after he and two teammates defaced their Pride hats last week. But if Roupp is looking for reading material himself, we have an autobiography he might want to check out. The subject, Jeremy Affeldt, was once a lot like him. A devout Christian, the 15-year MLB vet used to be so uncomfortable around gay people, he seldom left his hotel room when playing in San Francisco.