There’s a very angry bird outside my living room windows and it is screaming at my cats and my cats are screaming back and that’s New York City nature! And this is your Wednesday Pop Culture Fix!

+ Maisie Williams says you were correct all along: Game of Thrones fave Arya Stark is gaaaaay. (Makes sense, no straight person could ever hold onto a list of grudges that long and hard.)

“The first time that I was surprised by Arya I guess was probably in the final series where she whips off her clothes and sleeps with Gendry,” Maisie says. “I thought that Arya was queer, you know? So… yeah. That was a surprise.”

+ Cynthia Erivo on bonding with Ariana Grande for Wicked, and the future of Broadway.

+ Lightyear stars Uzo Aduba and Keke Palmer on Pixar’s “complex” themes—and that kiss.

+ The Handmaid’s Tale gets a season five premiere date and releases some first look photos.

+ Stranger Things 4 is Netflix’s top English-language TV season of all time.

+ Cynthia Nixon discusses Miranda’s style evolution on Sex and the City / And Just Like That.

+ First Kill stars Imani Lewis and Sarah Catherine Hook on their killer new Netflix series.

+ The trailer for Only Murders in the Building season two only hints at the sapphic shenanigans that Riese tells me are coming between Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne.

+ Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham wanted to turn the focus of Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own onto queer women of color who played baseball in the 1940s.

+ The 22 best LGBTQ+ video games to binge-play during Pride Month.

+ The definitive Pixar universe dad rankings.

+ Elliot Page takes centerstage in The Umbrella Academy season 3.

+ Toni Storm talks being bisexual in the WWE.

+ Celebrating the casual bisexuality in Hacks.

+ Multiple countries ban Pixar’s Lightyear over a lesbian kiss.

+ 11 books to read if you’re yearning for more Heartstopper.

+ Dove Cameron says she’s “so much better” mentally since coming out as queer.

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