• Gayety: The upcoming Heartstopper Forever, the film finale set to wrap Nick and Charlie’s story, will move forward without Academy Award winner Olivia Colman, who played Nick’s mother in the first two seasons. Anna Maxwell Martin will step into the role for the film.
Transgender people across Kansas are receiving letters informing them their driver’s licenses will now be considered invalid and must be surrendered at the DMV if the gender marker on their license does not reflect their gender assigned at birth. Continue reading “Kansas Demands Trans People Surrender Driver’s Licenses”
• Them: Dan Santiago, one half of the duo who went viral gay grinding in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show (above), says in a new interview, “Queerness deserves to be seen.”
Some news stories for you as we head into the weekend:
• Variety: Bad Bunny has released a trailer for his upcoming appearance at Super Bowl LX featuring a series of dancers of all different ages and cultures. At one point, he dances with a young man in a football jersey, then a man in jeans, a white tee and a Stetson doing a full-on cowboy dance. Toward the end of the clip, Bad Bunny even dips that man. Continue reading “Bad Bunny Drops Trailer For Super Bowl Halftime Show + More”
• Apple TV: The third season of LOOT is here and no one is mad that Zane Phillips (above) has joined the cast as hunky boyfriend “Moro” to billionaire “Molly Wells” (played by Maya Rudolph).
• Erin in the Morning: The United Kingdom’s “Girl Scouts” organization—Girl Guiding—has banned transgender girls from joining.
• NPR: The Department of Justice has instructed prisons and jails to drop standards designed to protect LGBTQ people from sexual violence.
• Pink News: While Spotify is letting subscribers discover their most listened songs of the year, gay dating app Grindr is showing off its own 2025 stats including Ireland having the most bears, Switzerland is tops in twinks, and the U.S. boasts the most daddies.
• Forbes: Eric Trump is reportedly ten-times richer than he was the day before the Donald returned to the White House in January. But, but, but…. Hunter Biden…
• Axios: A Pentagon watchdog concluded in a long-awaited report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. operations and troops at risk during a strike in Yemen by sending sensitive information to a Signal group chat on an unapproved device,
• New York Times: A new survey found that 98% of U.S. diplomats say that workplace morale has fallen since Trump took office again in January. Eighty-six percent said it had become harder to carry out U.S. foreign policy.
Happy Friday! Some news items as we head into the weekend:
• New York Times: The shooter who attacked two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday had worked with C.I.A.-backed military units in Afghanistan during the war there, and was granted legal asylum in the U.S. by the Trump administration in April 2025.