The life of the late gay artist Keith Haring will be on the small screen, with a new biopic TV show in the works, per artnet. Although no release date has yet been announced, the production will be based on the 502-page biography Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, penned by Brad Gooch and released last year.
The author will be an executive producer on the series, collaborating with the Keith Haring Foundation and UK-based Working Title Television. Queer British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers) has been tapped to adapt and direct the show.
The Rebel Wilson movie Girl Group will include Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger, per Deadline. Wilson is writing, directing, producing and starring in the project for Live Nation Studios and Future Artists Entertainment. Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts (joining former band member Scherzinger), Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm (aka Melanie C.) and All Saints’ Shaznay Lewis will also be in the film.
The Shameless Fund is offering a chance to meet out gay actor Jonathan Bailey in NYC at the premiere of the film Wicked: For Good, in which he co-stars. This November, the winner and that person’s guest will experience the movie event, with airfare and hotel included. Donate $10* or more for a chance to win an invitation for you and a guest; enter here.
Several trans celebrities have spoken out against President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14168, which has hindered transgender residents’ ability to get passports that accurately reflect their gender, LGBTQ Nation noted. They include actresses Angelica Ross (American Horror Story; Pose) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), influencer/activist Zaya Perysian, singer/songwriter Sasha Allen and RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Aja. In an Instagram video, Ross opened the envelope containing her new passport in July. She characterized the moment as “the gender reveal party I didn’t ask for,” and remained defiant when she learned on camera that the document listed her as “male.”
Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival (which took place July 31-Aug. 3) generated $480 million in overall economic activity in the city this year, according to Block Club Chicago. That’s about $40 million more than 2024. Overall, 56 percent of Lollapalooza’s more than 460,000 attendees traveled from outside Chicago to attend the festival in late July and early August. Just a few of this year’s performers included Olivia Rodrigo, Korn, Sabrina Carpenter, A$AP Rocky, queer performer Doechii and Tyler, The Creator.
LGBTQ+ U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn and U.S. counterpart Alysa Liu finished first and second at the Cup of China in each’s first top-level competition of the Olympic season, NBC News noted. Glenn, last year’s Grand Prix Final champion, overcame a 1.57-point deficit from the short program to Liu, last season’s world champion. Glenn and Liu gave the country its second women’s one-two in a full-fledged Grand Prix in the last nine years.
The Trump administration took aim at Netflix’s queer military show Boots by calling it “woke garbage,” according to Them. Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson criticized the coming-of-age series in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “Under President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to restoring the warrior ethos,” according to Wilson’s statement. “Our standards across the board are elite, uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn’t care if you’re a man, a woman, gay or straight.”
Actress June Lockhart (Lost in Space; Lassie) recently died at age 100—and it turned out that she had been a lifelong LGBTQ+ ally, according to The Advocate. In a groundbreaking moment on The Virginia Graham Show in 1970 (less than a year after the Stonewall Riots), Lockhart joined Rev. Troy Perry, the founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, for what would become one of television’s earliest conversations about homosexuality. Lockhart told the audience that no one has the right to moralize about another person’s life or identity—especially an experience they themselves have never lived.
The NFL is not thinking about dropping Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime headline performer, commissioner Roger Goodell said, according to ESPN. The statement reaffirmed a decision to put the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist on the league’s biggest stage, which led to criticism from President Donald Trump and some of his supporters. Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has been vocal in his opposition to Trump and his policies. He decided to do a 31-day residency in Puerto Rico and avoid stops in the mainland United States, citing concerns about the mass deportation of Latinos.
LGBTQ+ UK actor Kit Connor (Heartstopper) is reuniting with D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, his co-star in A24’s Warfare, on A Long Winter, the new drama from queer four-time BAFTA nominee Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers), Deadline noted. Connor’s star is definitely on the rise. Upcoming, he’ll also be seen in his Warfare director Alex Garland’s live-action adaptation of the video game Elden Ring for A24 as well as the zombie horror film Rapture, and the YA franchise-extending TV movie Heartstopper: Forever, among other productions.
The first-ever New York revival of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play Proof—co-starring queer Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) and Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Crash) in their Broadway debuts—will debut next spring, Playbill revealed. Proof will play a strictly limited 16-week engagement at the Booth Theatre beginning March 31, 2026, and opening night at the venue is set for April 16. Proof is about a daughter of a recently deceased mathematician who must fight to prove the authorship of a landmark proof that is discovered among her father’s papers, and who must deal with her father’s legacy of genius and mental illness.
Lizzo has been sued for allegedly sampling, Variety noted. She performed a part of an unreleased song—apparently titled “I’m Goin’ In Till October”—that sampled the song “Win or Lose (We Tried),” which is represented for publishing in the case by a company named The GRC Trust. In that clip and another, Lizzo was satirizing the media attention around an American Eagle ad campaign starring Sydney Sweeney, including the line “I got good jeans like I’m Sydney.”
While appearing on a new episode of the Shut Up Evan podcast, singer/actress Ariana Grande revealed how icons Madonna and Beyonce welcomed her with open arms after her music career first started taking off after her successful album Victorious, per Yahoo! “I remember Madonna immediately was very kind,” Grande said, adding, ” I think she was one of the first people to reach out and, like, give me a warm welcome, and it was just really cool.” Grande also mentioned the support she’s received from Mariah Carey.
Southern California-based funk/soul singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Moondough (aka Ken Raymundo) released their new single, “Have A Nice Trip, See You Next Fall,” for kill iconic records, a press release noted. (The video is here.) In 2020, Moondough became known for the song “Social Disco Dancing,” released on Blue Swan Records.
R&B legend Little Anthony (who formerly performed with his backup group, The Imperials) and rising country star Brooke Moriber have teamed on a remake of Little Anthony and The Imperials’ 1965 hit “Hurts So Bad,” a press release announced. (There’s also a corresponding music video.) “Truth be told, I had never done a video before—but this song and video were something truly special,” said Little Anthony. “Brooke and I are both actors, and we both understood how to structure not just the song, but the visual story behind it.”
“Comic Relief Live” will return to New York City on Dec. 10 in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, with John Oliver hosting, per a press release. The current lineup features confirmed performances and appearances by Tony Award-winning comedian/actor/writer Ilana Glazer, out actor/singer Andrew Rannells and Emmy-nominated comedian Roy Wood Jr., with additional celebrity appearances to be announced. The event will honor Trevor Noah (comedian and best-selling author) with Comic Relief’s Icon Award and Kristin Lemkau (Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan Wealth Management at JPMorgan Chase) with Comic Relief’s Visionary Award.
LGBTQ+ Emmy winner Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) is set to join the ensemble of the Netflix series All the Sinners Bleed, according to Deadline. The series follows Titus Crown (played by Sọpẹ́ Dìrísù), the first Black sheriff in a small Bible Belt county. Haunted by his devout mother’s untimely death, he must lead the hunt for a serial killer who has been preying on his Black community for years in the name of God. Bartlett will play Scott Cunningham, the chair of the board of supervisors in the town.
In a statement, musician Nelly Furtado (“Promiscuous,” “I’m Like a Bird”) said she is putting performing on hold “for the foreseeable future [to] pursue some other creative and personal endeavors that I feel would better suit this next phase of my life,” according to People. The Grammy winner also thanked “anyone who has ever listened and vibrated with my music and attended any of my shows” as well as “those who have worked so hard to help me make my pop dreams come true.” However, Page Six ran an article saying the break followed attacks by online body-shamers.
A 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival home in Beverly Hills that once belonged to Madonna, restored by Diane Keaton and later became the residence of out gay show creator Ryan Murphy has listed for $25 million, per The New York Post. Located at 820 N. Roxbury Dr., the 8,434-square-foot home was originally designed in 1927 by Ralph C. Flewelling, the architect behind Beverly Hills’ city hall. In 2010, Keaton sold it to Ryan Murphy for $10 million, after initially listing it for $12.99 million in 2009. Murphy later sold it for $16.25 million to its current owners, private equity executive Seth Wunder and his artist wife Cailin.
The daytime soap The Bold & the Beautiful has drawn criticism after introducing a twist involving its first gay male couple, Remy Forrester and Deke Sharpe, in a bisexual love triangle, according to Attitude. The series recently introduced actor Harrison Cone, who stars in an on-screen romance with actor Christian Weissmann, marking the start of the show’s first gay male romance storyline. But fans are now unhappy with a new storyline suggesting that Deke may be developing feelings for Remy’s former love, Electra.
Power Ballad, starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, will debut on theater screens June 5, per Deadline. In the movie, Rick (played by Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Jonas) during a gig. When Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves—at all costs.
Florence + the Machine will embark on The Everybody Scream Tour of North America next year, with dates kicking off next April including stops at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center, the Los Angeles’ Kia Forum, a Chicago-area appearance at Allstate Arena and more, per a press release. The run will follow Florence Welch’s previously announced early 2026 Europe and UK dates. Rachel Chinouriri, SOFIA ISELLA, CMAT and Mannequin Pussy will support on certain dates. In this season’s premiere episode of The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian received the news that doctors found a small aneurysm during an MRI—and she blamed one of her exes, Kanye West, per Page Six. After doctors broke the news to her and she questioned “why the f–k” it was happening, they informed her that aneurysms can be caused by “stress.” Since their split (after being married during 2014-22), the Grammy winner has been quite vocal about his co-parenting relationship with Kardashian.