Wedding bells are ringing for at least two queer celebrities: comedian Kal Penn and actor Kristen Stewart both announced their respective engagements last week to their long-time partners. And while that’s certainly exciting, the bigger news is the pair of beloved straight celebrities who volunteered their unique services to help Penn and Stewart tie their respective knots.
But high-profile nuptials aren’t the only thing that happened last week. From cringe-worthy Chris Pratt posts to Phoebe Bridgers relationship news and a groundbreaking Gucci fashion show, there was A LOT of queer culture to catch up on last week.
Thankfully, we’ve got you covered with this week’s edition of “The Buzz.”
→What a time to be alive. Just days after learning that Kal Penn is not only queer but engaged and that long-time sapphic hearthtrob Kristen Stewart is also getting hitched, news adropped that some big names were in line to officiate the two celebrity gay weddings.
First, Stewart casually mentioned in an appearance on The Howard Stern Show that she’d love for celebrity chef and fan of frosted tips Guy Fieri to officiate her wedding to screenwriter Dylan Meyer. And then, lo and behold, Fieri dropped into Stewart’s appearance on the Today show with a surprise.
Fieri actually has a history of officiating gay weddings, if you can believe it. In 2015, the Food Network star officiated 101 queer weddings in Miami in honour of his late sister Morgan, who was gay. From the sound of it, Stewart is game, so we might be getting some diners, drive-ins and dykes in the near future.
Meanwhile, Kal Penn’s recently announced nuptials to his partner of 11 years got their own endorsement in the form of rapper and patron saint of the wet-ass pussy Cardi B, who, like Fieri, is also apparently licensed to officiate weddings.
Sometimes the world is good. Now I just need to figure out how to cop invites to what will surely be the biggest crossover events in history.
→Coming out can be scary. But maybe it’s less scary if pop star Harry Styles helps you do it? That was the reality for one fan last week, when the singer and former boybander helped her come out to her mom during a concert.
“LISA, SHE’S GAY!” is going right into the lesbian lexicon alongside “Harold, they’re lesbians.”
→Patron saint of sad queer songs Phoebe Bridgers is maybe probably definitely dating Paul Mescal, an Irish man I know very little about except that he appeared in that Normal People show that straights love. We love to see a bi queen thriving!
→There’s a new documentary out about Pete Buttigieg and his presidential run. Mayor Pete will drop on Amazon Prime on Nov. 12.
→Lance Bass and Britney Spears are sixth cousins once removed?!
→The Korean pop band Lionesses released their first song last week, claiming to be the first out LGBTQ+ K-Pop band. Their track “Show Me Your Pride” is aimed at other LGBTQ+ Koreans looking to embrace their queer joy.
“I think Korean society is still very conservative—although it’s much better than before—and I think our perspectives and perceptions will change more in the future,” band member Foxman told The Advocate in an interview.
→Canadian writer Mariko Tamaki has a new LGBTQ2S+ comics imprint that’s set to release its first graphic novel later this month.
→A groundbreaking Gucci fashion show last week featured activist and organizer Janaya Future Khan wearing a binder on the runway. Khan helped found Black Lives Matter Toronto,
“For folks who are trans, buying binders has been an integral part of one’s journey for a long period of time, but we don’t see that. We don’t see that process and that relationship and that difference, in the sort of what is treated as finished and complete on things like social media,” they told Them. about the look.
“So I think it’s a really beautiful thing to capture an underrepresented population at one of the highest scales of fashion.”
→Wicked fans are saying enough to James Corden playing gay in musicals. An online petition has started to keep the late-night host out of the upcoming film adaptation of the beloved musical.
→Out queer wrestler Jai Vidal made his Imapct Wrestling debut last week, which included his signature move the “power-bottom bomb.” Watch it in its full glory below.
→The beloved “old gays” of TikTok are getting their own show! Robert Reeves, Mick Peterson, Bill Lyons and Jessay Martin have signed on to develop a docuseries about their lives in L.A. The quartet’s popular TikTok account boasts over 3 million followers and 38.5 million likes.
→And finally: the first instalment of a new recurring segment that we’re calling “This Week in Straight Nonsense,” in which we highlight the silliness that the hets are getting up to. The inaugural shout-out goes to Marvel actor Chris Pratt’s absolutely batshit Instagram post about his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger where, among other things, he writes that her “heart is pure and belongs to [him.]”
There’s also some less-than-savoury references to Schwarzenegger giving him a “healthy daughter,” which reads a whole lot worse when you know about Pratt’s son with previous wife Anna Farris.
That’s gonna be a “yikes” from me.
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