What a week in pop culture. Adele is back, Britney Spears is free and Taylor Swift gave us 10 straight minutes of absolutely roasting Jake Gyllenhal as part of a remastered album that, I don’t know about you, is making me feel 22 again.
And those are just the songstresses of our world!
But in a week that saw so much happen in the general pop culture space I’m happy to report queer pop culture was no different. In this week’s edition of “The Buzz,” we’ve got the latest on Kristen Stewart, Lil Nas X’s continued domination of the world and Kim Petras bringing her coconuts to the European Music Awards.
It’s great, it’s fun, but it’s a lot to keep up with! Here’s what you missed this week in queer pop culture.
→While the movie itself is… an experience, the Kristen Stewart press tour for Spencer is the gift that keeps on giving. A week after we learned that Guy Fieri might actually maybe officiate her wedding to screenwriter Dylan Meyer, Stewart dropped another tidbit of offbeat and exciting news during an interview with the New Yorker’s Emily Witt: she’s developing a gay ghost-hunting reality show that she describes as “a paranormal romp in a queer space” with elevated aesthetics.
“Gay people love pretty things,” she said. “So we are aiming for a richness.”
Honestly, she’s not wrong. And Kristen Stewart plus reality TV plus gay ghosts is a recipe for perfection. Please pump KStew communing with historical lesbians straight into my veins.
The only remaining question is how it will compare to Demi Lovato’s non-binary alien-hunting show?
→Lil Nas X is going on Maury. Is it a bit? Is it real? We’ll find out—along with who is the father, of course.
→Speaking of Montero, Lil Nas X is GQ’s “Musician of the Year” and posed with himself (of course) for a stunning cover shoot.
In the accompanying story, he spoke candidly with playwright Jeremy O. Harris about coming out, making music and “normalizing faggotry.”
“It looks like a little boy asking his parents at eight years old, can he get some nail polish or try something, and it’s not even a question,” Lil Nas X said. “It looks like two guys kissing during a performance and there not being anything crazy on Twitter about it the next day. It looks like a little boy who doesn’t want to play fucking football and hang with the girls, and that just being a normal thing. Just letting people exist. Like, that’s gay as fuck.”
→Raven-Symoné and her wife Miranda Miday appeared on Nicole Byer’s podcast Why Won’t You Date Me? this week and shared some absolutely delightful anecdotes about gay marriage, sex toys and finding love.
→The trailer for Netflix’s first queer Christmas movie, Single All the Way, is here, and it features Jennifer Coolidge rightfully acknowledging that gays love her.
→Canadian actor Victor Garber lends his voice to Smithers’ boyfriend on The Simpsons.
→And in other boyfriend news, the NFL’s only openly gay active player, Carl Nassib, has a boyfriend! The Las Vegas Raiders player shared a cute pic of the two of them on his Instagram story this week.
“I just wanted to be someone’s number one priority, and I couldn’t have that,” he said in an interview last month. “So that was the one thing where I was like, ‘Man, I really f—king want that.’ But I got that now, so it’s good.”
→Kim Petras debuted two new songs at the European Music Awards this weekend, including one that is about the universal experience of, well, having your “coconuts” in someone’s mouth.
→The European Music Awards ceremony was held in Budapest in the midst of a wave of homophobic policies in Hungary. Performers, presenters and winners like Petras, Lil Nas X and Saweetie spoke out throughout the ceremony about LGBTQ2S+ rights and against Hungary’s anti-LGBT+ laws.
→Actor Jesse James Keitel says the new Queer as Folk reboot is going to be “so fucking major” and Kim Cattrell is confirmed to be part of it, so we have to agree.
→The biggest pop culture news of the weekend was that Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) finally dropped and pretty much everyone’s obsessed. But if you’re curious why lesbians in particular care so much about Swift and her exploits, here’s a breakdown of the gay conspiracy theory that is “Kaylor” and what you need to know.
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