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Happy new week, my friends! Have you ever heard about a pickle sandwich? Which is a sandwich made of pickles, like where the bread part is pickles and the pickles part is pickles and also there’s other sandwich fillings? ‘Cause I just discovered it and already my week is made.
I hope your week is just a tiny bit brighter ’cause of the pickles and also this Pop Culture Fix!
+ So it turns out Rebel Wilson maybe came out because The Sydney Morning Herald was threatening to out her??? Gross, newspaper!
+ Last night’s Tony Awards were huge for queer theater and Black theater! Six co-creator Toby Marlow became the first nonbinary composer-lyricist to win Best Score. A Stranger Loop — which the NYT calls “a scalding story about a gay, Black theater artist confronting self-doubt and societal disapproval” and RuPaul called “a big, Black and queer-ass musical” — won Best New Musical. And Ariana DeBose went full-on theater kid and won the night with her unreal talent and charisma.
+ Here’s our first look at Megan Thee Stallion in season two of P-Valley.
+ Margaret Cho calls the threats to Roe v. Wade and gay marriage “disgusting.”
+ Get ready for an ’80s time travel adventure with first look at the Paper Girls TV show.
+ Metrograph’s Muff Dives is “devoted to films that immerse viewers, if only for a scene or two, in social spaces that are now perilously close to extinction: nightspots catering to queer women.” You can even watch from home!
+ Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle are the first queer women pictured in Architectural Digest in bed.
+ Former Christian singer Nicole Serrano comes out as a lesbian and non-binary.
+ This is some seriously excellent allyship: USWNT / Portland Thorns FC star Becky Sauerbrunn is donating $250 for every appearance, $100 for every goal her team scores, and $500 if she’s the one scoring it to Playing For Pride.
+ How Kissing Jessica Stein became a surprise hit 20 years ago.
+ Penny Taylor, former WNBA superstar and wife of Diana Taurasi, used her induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame to call for the release of Brittney Griner.
+ Tom Hiddleston champions bisexual Loki.
+ Behind the visible queerness in women’s sports — and why it matters. (In which Frankie de la Cretaz compares the WNBA to Alice’s chart on The L Word!)
+ The Queer as Folk reboot does a kindness to New Orleans’ imperfect real-life queer scene.
Lol how absolutely feckin shite that the Australian newspaper did a dirty delete on the original article. Spineless!
Makes it even worse that some of the staff included fellow lgbtq writers who wanted to out her.
making myself chuckle by imagining that gennon doyle thanks a list of people that long every day when she sees her bedroom
glennon! my l has been sticky lately
Truth : L-words are sticky by nature
Ru was quoting one of the songs from Strange Loop. I also noticed Cynthia Enrivo was sitting next to Lena Waithe…
Yeah, they’ve been together for awhile and go to most events together but technically have never officially stated to the press that they are a couple. To my knowledge anyway.
How did I not know (remember) there was a Paper Girls show coming up! The coloring of the comics is still so instantly, vividly iconic in my minds’ eye, excited to see it translated to the screen.
This is the same newspaper that outed the participants of the first pride march (Mardi Gras) in 1978, and it’s supposedly the more left-wing of our two major newspapers. Just trash. It makes me so angry.
WOOF Sydney, what is happening over there??
Becky Sauerbrunn is a true team captain!
I’m so glad Rebel took back her story. And the reaction from the press- my goodness! That tells you everything you need to know. It would be so nice if people could just live their lives without their partners being considered gossip.