Alexis arrives! (Image via FX)

Joan Collins, 85, is back on network TV!

Keep reading for the American Horror Story trailer ...

In all the pose familiar places ... (GIF via Sire)

Ryan Murphy's Pose panel at the FX TCA summer press tour Friday ended with a rather striking proposition: The out mega-producer suggested Season 2 of Pose could end with the release of Madonna's “Vogue” in 1990, and an appearance by the Queen of Pop could be in the offing ...

(Images via The Cutting Room)

Monday night at The Cutting Room was the highly anticipated concert to benefit GLSEN staged by my pal Wayne Laako and featuring some of the cast of FX's just-renewed series Pose.

Thrown together quickly for a good cause, it was a total smash, a seamless event packed with fans and filled with great performances and affirmations.

Burnside knows how to hold a stage. (All event images by Matthew Rettenmund)

Dyllón Burnside, Ricky on the show, was the emcee and main performer, and let me tell you Pose-finale watchers: Al B. Sure is no longer the #1 panty-dropper on the scene. Cute and confident, he sang his heart out eand commanded the night with his personal coming-out story and by introducing his “father,” history-making Vibe co-founding EIC Emil Wilbekin. Together, they spoke about the importance of safe spaces for LGBTQ people. The concept of a safe space is often ridiculed, parodied to mean that those who seek it expect to live life in a cocoon. In reality, it's about allowing marginalized people a shot to live their lives, not free from stress and struggle and hard work and emotional ups and downs, but free from targeted abuse and intolerance and hate.

Pose has been renewed for a second season on FX!

Any quibbles I had early on (Dominique Jackson's act-ting ... the relative lack of people with HIV ... some of the Friends-sized apartments ...) have mostly resolved and I now find it to be pretty satisfying to watch every week. I think Billy Porter just had an Emmy episode, and MJ Rodriguez carries things beautifully, while it's Indya Moore who I can't resist.

Are you into it?

Above: We've all been there!

Below: Keep reading for Madonna, Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul and also a lot of things that weren't around in the 80s — like a hot male model named Tim and India potentially decriminalizing gay sex...

Above: Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds got seriously jacked.

 

Below: Latin American Pride, criticizing the NYT, Bear Week,  Shawn Mendes and Arthur Nury leaks, Jeremy McClain on vogueing, shutting down the Dan Ryan, and more ...

(Video still via FX)

Ryan Murphy's next project is his gayest yet (next, he'll do a dramatic series based on those ultrasound images of penises in rectums): Pose.

The new FX musical series looks like he watched Paris Is Burning and recreated it as fiction, no? But he did it with LGBTQ people, including trans actors, which makes this series unique out of the gate.

Check out the trailer ...

Above: That'll do it!

Below: Keep reading for Michael B. Jordan looking insanely hot and so much more...